Re: Using HDF5 to create an R data frame

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "LRA" == M Lang & S Railsback <address@hidden> writes:

LRA> OK, on to the next hurdle: I'm not finding any reference to a
LRA> built-in date format in S-Plus or R. Surely there must be
LRA> one...anybody use it?

The `chron' or `date' packages should do what you want:

   http://www.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html
   http://www.r-project.org/bin/windows/windows-NT/contrib

The packaging for windows (packages listed under the latter URL), can
be installed like the HDF5 module.

Here's an example using the `date' package:

   > library(date)
   > date.mmddyy(mdy.date(2,10,2000))
   [1] "2/10/2000"

And be aware there are excellent r-help mailing lists and archives:

  http://www.r-project.org/doc/html/mail.html

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