Re: [R] Newbie woes with *apply

2010-02-14 Thread Dimitri Shvorob
Bug fix: first.day.of.quarter = function(date) { t = first.day.of.month(date) l = month(date) %% 3 if (l == 0) return(t) t = seq.Date(t, by = -1 month, length = l) return(t[length(t)]) } But the *apply part still does not work. -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] Newbie woes with *apply

2010-02-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try library(zoo) x - as.Date(seq(1, 500, 50)) # test data as.Date(as.yearmon(x)) as.Date(as.yearqtr(x)) On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Dimitri Shvorob dimitri.shvo...@gmail.com wrote: Dataframe cust has Date-type column open.date. I wish to set up another column, with (first day of) the

Re: [R] Newbie woes with *apply

2010-02-14 Thread Dimitri Shvorob
Many thanks, but my focus is actually on *apply usage. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Newbie-woes-with-apply-tp1555149p1555329.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Newbie woes with *apply

2010-02-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Your function is not receiving what you may think its receiving. Try this: x - Sys.Date() + 1:3 junk - lapply(x, print) [1] 14655 [1] 14656 [1] 14657 So add this as the first statement in the body of each of your functions: date - as.Date(date, 1970-01-01) and then using x from above try