Comparing today's date to a particular date

[Dennis Fisher <fisher@plessthan.com>]

Colleagues,

I would like to compare today's date to a particular date, e.g., next January 1.  In R, you could do something like:

as.numeric(Sys.Date()) < as.numeric(as.Date("2009-01-01"))

However, fewer time-related commands are available in S-Plus.  Does anyone have a quick fix to this?

Dennis

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