For your second question: x <- chron(1) x <- chron(x, out.format = ddmmyyyy)
using the ddmmyyyy from below. On 10/19/06, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As discussed the Help Desk article in R News 4/1, the 2 vs 4 year > length is controlled by the chron.year.abb option, e.g. > > options(chron.year.abb = FALSE) > chron(20) > > however, as also discussed there its not really recommended that > you use this option so try this instead: > > ddmmyyyy <- function( x ) > with( month.day.year( x ), sprintf( "%02.f-%02.f-%04.f", day, > month, year) ) > chron( 20, out.format = ddmmyyyy ) > > > > > On 10/19/06, Denis Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear R users, > > > > Do you know of a way to precise an out.format for a chron object that > > would use numbers for months and yet 4 digits for the year? > > > > I have tried out.format=c("d-m-year") (note the m instead of either > > mon or month) but got 27-Feb-1992. > > > > Also, the help for chron tells us how to define an out.format when we > > create a chron object, but how can you change the out.format of an > > existing chron object? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Denis > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.