Reading Dates and Times from Files
You need to be very careful when dealing with dates and times in any sort of computing. R has a particularly robust system for working with dates and times, which is explained in detail on p. 89. Typically, you will read dates and times as character strings, then convert them into dates and/or times within R.
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