<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>When using "seqformat" (from SPELL data) with "process = TRUE", and an external data frame for "pdata", as follows :</div><div><div><br></div> <pre class="ydp7397d77cGNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7397d77crstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7397d77cGNKRCKGCMSB ydp7397d77cace_keyword" style="color: blue; white-space: pre-wrap;">> </span><span class="ydp7397d77cGNKRCKGCMRB ydp7397d77cace_keyword" style="color: blue;">situations <- seqformat(data[,1:4], id = 1, from = "SPELL", to = "STS", begin = 3, end = 4, status = 2,
</span><span class="ydp7397d77cGNKRCKGCMSB ydp7397d77cace_keyword" style="color: blue; white-space: pre-wrap;">+ </span><span class="ydp7397d77cGNKRCKGCMRB ydp7397d77cace_keyword" style="color: blue;"> right = NA, process = TRUE, limit = 7644, pdata = pdata, pvar = c("id","birth"))</span></span></pre><br><div><br></div></div><div>I get an error message :</div><div><br></div><div><pre class="ydp390bbdbeGNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp390bbdberstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp390bbdbeGNKRCKGCASB ydp390bbdbeace_constant" style="color: rgb(197, 6, 11);">Error in charToDate(x) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format</span></span></pre><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I read many threads about that issue, but could not find any helpful solution.</div><div>Here are the structures of my data frames "data" and "pdata" :<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="ydpb4c4b5ffGNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydpb4c4b5ffrstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydpb4c4b5ffGNKRCKGCMSB ydpb4c4b5fface_keyword" style="color: blue; white-space: pre-wrap;">> </span><span class="ydpb4c4b5ffGNKRCKGCMRB ydpb4c4b5fface_keyword" style="color: blue;">str(data)
</span><span class="ydpb4c4b5ffGNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">'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 "Féminin","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 ...</span></span></pre><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCMSB ydp7d4b85e4ace_keyword" style="color: blue; white-space: pre-wrap;">> </span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCMRB ydp7d4b85e4ace_keyword" style="color: blue;">str(pdata)
</span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">'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" ...</span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;"><br></span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;"><br></span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">It seems to me that all date formats are OK.<br></span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">But, clearly, something's wrong.</span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;"><br></span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">What am I doing wrong?</span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;"><br></span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">Thank you in advance for your help,</span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">Best,</span></span></pre></div><div><pre class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" id="ydp7d4b85e4rstudio_console_output" style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span class="ydp7d4b85e4GNKRCKGCGSB" style="outline: medium none currentcolor; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap !important;">Arnaud.<br></span></span></pre><br></div></div></div></body></html>