Re: [R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread Benjamin Caldwell
Thanks all! That did it. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Nikhil Kaza wrote: > Building on Erik's solution and because it would easier to do date > arithmetic.. > > d1 <- as.character(date) > d1 <- ifelse(nchar(d1)<4, paste(0,d1,sep=""),d1) > d2 <- as.Date(date, "%m%d") > > > On Jul 15, 2010, a

Re: [R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread Nikhil Kaza
Building on Erik's solution and because it would easier to do date arithmetic.. d1 <- as.character(date) d1 <- ifelse(nchar(d1)<4, paste(0,d1,sep=""),d1) d2 <- as.Date(date, "%m%d") On Jul 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, btc1 wrote: Hello, I have a vector, "dates", as a series of 3 digit elements,

Re: [R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: gsub("^(.)", "\\1/", dates) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, btc1 wrote: > > Hello, I have a vector, "dates", as a series of 3 digit elements, i.e. > > date > [1] 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 708 708 708 708 708 > 708 > [19] 708 708 708 708 529 529 529 529 529 5

Re: [R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread Wu Gong
gsub("(.*)(.{2})","\\1/\\2",dates) - A R learner. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Cut-a-within-elements-by-length-not-value-of-vectors-tp2290440p2290471.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread Erik Iverson
btc1 wrote: Hello, I have a vector, "dates", as a series of 3 digit elements, i.e. > date [1] 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 708 708 708 708 708 708 [19] 708 708 708 708 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 [37] 529 624 I need to convert them into julian

Re: [R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread Martyn Byng
uot; "12/08" "4/23" "15/06" "3/21" Martyn -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of btc1 Sent: 15 July 2010 18:22 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Cut a within elements by length,

[R] Cut a within elements by length, not value, of vectors

2010-07-15 Thread btc1
Hello, I have a vector, "dates", as a series of 3 digit elements, i.e. > date [1] 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 708 708 708 708 708 708 [19] 708 708 708 708 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 [37] 529 624 I need to convert them into julian, but have to i