From arnaud_trolle at yahoo.fr Wed Jan 31 15:42:28 2018 From: arnaud_trolle at yahoo.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Arnaud_Troll=C3=A9?=) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Traminer-users] Error when using "seqformat" (from SPELL data) with "process = TRUE", and an external data frame for "pdata" ... References: <326131248.402471.1517409748146.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <326131248.402471.1517409748146@mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, When using "seqformat" (from SPELL data) with "process = TRUE", and an external data frame for "pdata", as follows : > situations <- seqformat(data[,1:4], id = 1, from = "SPELL", to = "STS", begin = 3, end = 4, status = 2, + right = NA, process = TRUE, limit = 7644, pdata = pdata, pvar = c("id","birth")) I get an error message : Error in charToDate(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format I read many threads about that issue, but could not find any helpful solution.Here are the structures of my data frames "data" and "pdata" : > str(data) 'data.frame': 2428 obs. of 9 variables: $ ID_SQ : Factor w/ 798 levels "1","2","3","5",..: 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 ... $ SITUATION : chr "En poste" "En poste" "En poste" "En poste" ... $ DATE_DE : Date, format: "1997-09-01" "1999-05-03" "2003-01-01" "2006-05-02" ... $ DATE_A : Date, format: "1999-04-26" "2002-12-31" "2006-04-28" "2007-11-24" ... $ SEXE : Factor w/ 2 levels "F?minin","Masculin": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ PROMO : Factor w/ 6 levels "1997","1998",..: 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 ... $ DEPARTEMENT : Factor w/ 10 levels "BC","GCU","GE",..: 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 4 ... $ NIVEAU_ADMISSION: Factor w/ 2 levels "En Premier Cycle",..: NA NA NA NA NA 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ FILIERE_SECTION : Factor w/ 4 levels "Cursus Classique",..: NA NA NA NA NA 4 4 4 4 4 ... > str(pdata) 'data.frame': 798 obs. of 2 variables: $ id : Factor w/ 798 levels "1","2","3","5",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ birth: Date, format: "1997-01-01" "1998-01-01" "1998-01-01" "2000-01-01" ... It seems to me that all date formats are OK. But, clearly, something's wrong. What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance for your help,Best,Arnaud. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: