Re: time date

[Sundar Dorai-Raj <sundar.dorai-raj@PDF.COM>]

jose Bartolomei wrote:

> Dear S-plus users,
>
> I have two questions.
>
> 1.  How can I format a numeric vector (like: 01012000) to timeDate 
> (like: 01/01/2000)?
(Is this month/day/year or day/month/year?)

You'll have to convert the values to character and prepend a "0" to the 
beginning those elements that represent dates before October 1, assuming 
month/day/year.
x <- 12000 + 1000000 * 1:12
x <- paste(ifelse(x < 10000000, "0", ""), x, sep = "")
x.td <- timeDate(x, "%2m%2d%4Y")

> 2. if the time is the Birth Date. How can I calculate the age?
> for example; from 01/01/2000  to  4.x year of age
today <- timeDate(date(), "%w %m %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y")
as.numeric(today - x.td)/365.25

--sundar

BTW, all of this could be discovered by reading the help page for 
?timeDate and ?class.timeDate.