Thanks!
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:34:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [R] strptime Usage
>
>
>
> strptime takes a character input and produces a POSIXlt output so
> the format you specify to strptime is the format of the input,
> not the output:
>
> format( strptime("10/22/1986", "%m/%d/%Y"), "%Y-%m" )
It worked perfect. Just out of interest, if I want to convert (either
from the original form, i.e. mm/dd/yyyy, or the yyyy-mm form, to quarterly
format, e.g.:
1999-1
1999-2
1999-3
1999-4
is it possible to do with strptime? Or do I have to do something
creative? ;-D
--
Cheers,
Kevin
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