From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Mon Oct  1 15:17:30 2001
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 01 Oct 2001 16:17:30 +0200
Subject: [Rd] problem with strptime example (PR#811)
In-Reply-To: <200110011358.PAA16380@pubhealth.ku.dk>
References: <200110011358.PAA16380@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <x2g093xx51.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

al18853@uta.fi writes:

> Hello,
> 
> strptime is still not working correctly in my computer 
> (Windows 98 and R Version 1.3.1)  
> 
> From
> 
> x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960")
> strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
> 
> I obtain
> 
> [1] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA"
> 
> while 
> x <- c("01011960", "02011960", "3131960", "3071960")
> strptime(x, "%d%m%Y")
> 
> gives 
> [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" "1960-07-30"
> 
> So it seems that the problem is with %b. 

This works fine for me on a similar setup. Does Finnish localisation
do strange things with month names??

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[Rd] problem with strptime example (PR#811)
Peter Dalgaard BSA