On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:49 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I have seen much discussion on Date. But I can't seem to do this > simple operation. I can convert a string to a date: > > d <- as.Date(DATE, format="%m/%d/%Y") > > But what I want to do is extract the year and month so I can construct > an element in a ts object. Ideally I would like to see d$year but that > doesn't seem to be available. Once I have a Date object how can I get > an integer year?
as.numeric(format(d, format = "%Y")) as.numeric(format(d, format = "%m")) and so on. Look at the formats in ?strftime for further details. HTH G > > Thank you. > > Kevin > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
