as.POSIXct.character: as.POSIXct.character

In decisionpatterns/date.reader: This packages extends type.convert and read.table to automatically detect and coerce date fields to POSIX.

Description

Convers character to POSIXct

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
as.POSIXct(x, tz = "", ...)

Arguments

x	character; vector to convert to a POSIX date
tz	character; optional time zone
...	list; other optional arguments (from as.POSIXct, ignored)

Value

POSIXct vector (or NA, if a value cannot be parsed)

See Also

as.POSIXct
strptime for format strings

Examples

# -tk
 dts <- c( '20140210', '19791118', '19720329' )
 as.POSIXct( dts )

 dts <- rep( '20140210', 10 )
 as.POSIXct( dts )

 dts <- c( '14-02-10', '79-11-18' ) # FAIL(?)
 as.POSIXct( dts )

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