Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-24 Thread John
Hi Eric, Thank you for your message! It does work in my system!! I follow you by typing it: date11<-as.Date(as.POSIXlt(a_col$date),format="%Y-%m-%d") Then I typed it: date12<-as.Date(a_col$date, format="%Y-%m-%d") date12 yields exactly the same results as date11. Then my system

Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-24 Thread Jeff Newmiller
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Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-24 Thread Eric Berger
Hi John, I was able to reproduce your problem in my environment. I modified the statement date11<-as.Date(a_col$date, format="%Y-%m-%d") to date11<-as.Date(as.POSIXlt(a_col$date),format="%Y-%m-%d") which then gives the output you would like to see (at least on my system) > date11 [1] "2004-01-01"

Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-23 Thread John
Hi, Thank you for all your responses. For Eric, The files are attached. (I believe it was also attached in my first message) For David, Could you send me the link regarding possible solutions or a more comprehensive description of the problem? Thanks, John 2017-09-23 22:29 GMT-07:0

Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-23 Thread David Winsemius
> On Sep 23, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Eric Berger wrote: > > Jim, > I don't see how that link could be related to John's issue. Symptoms > related to your link involve discrepancies of four years whereas John is > seeing discrepancies of one day. > The MS Excel starting point was off by one day. R do

Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-23 Thread Eric Berger
Jim, I don't see how that link could be related to John's issue. Symptoms related to your link involve discrepancies of four years whereas John is seeing discrepancies of one day. John, I do not see any attached files. Regards On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Jim Lemon wrote: > Hi John, > It c

Re: [R] "XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

2017-09-23 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi John, It could be due to this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/214330/differences-between-the-1900-and-the-1904-date-system-in-excel Jim On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 1:04 PM, John wrote: > Hi, > >I tried to read xlsx files by "XLConnect" packages, but the dates are > one day earlier