On 24 January 2007 at 17:39, John McHenry wrote:
| What is the "standard" way to get the day of the week from a date such
| as as.Date("2006-12-01")? It looks like fCalendar has some functions
| but this requires a change in the R locale to GMT. Is there another way?
Yes, go to POSIXlt and extract the wday field (see ?POSIXlt for more):
> as.POSIXlt(as.Date("2006-12-01"))$wday
[1] 5
> as.POSIXlt(as.Date("2006-12-01")+0:6)$wday
[1] 5 6 0 1 2 3 4
>
Dirk
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