[R] Problems with date-format (R 2.1.1 + chron)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

x <- as.Date("21-07-2005","%d-%m-%y")

is base R, and gives you a object of class "Date".

days() is not part of R, and I guess from your subject is part of chron. 
Its help page does not say what it actually does, but my guess is that it 
finds days of the month, *for a "dates" object not a "Date" object*.  Try

as.POSIXlt(x)$mday

to get that.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Carsten Steinhoff wrote:

> today I've updated on the newest R-Version. But sadly a function I needed
> didnt want to work:

It should never have worked, as you were using contrary to its 
documentation.

> The input is e.g.
>
> days(as.Date("21-07-2005","%d-%m-%y"))
>
> the error is: Fehler in Math.Date(dts): floor nicht definiert für Date
> Objekte
> (Error in Math.Date(dts): floor not defined for date objects)
>
> Same for year. Only months gives me the correct output.
> In Version 2.01 it worked very well, with the same chron library.
> Whats wrong ?

There is no version 2.01 of R: do see the posting guide!

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