See ?seq.Date, e.g. now <- Sys.Date() dd <- seq(now - 20, now, by = "day") dd[as.POSIXlt(dd)$wday %% 6 != 0]
and have a look at R News 4/1. On 10/15/07, Vishal Belsare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > date <- as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()) #present date > for (i in 1:difftime(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()),"2007-10-01")) > if (date$wday != 0 & date$wday != 6) {print(date);assign("date", > (date-86400))} else (assign("date", (date-86400))) > > > I am trying to print dates from present day to a day in the past, but > omitting weekends. I am not doing something right, but can't figure > out what. Help appreciated! > > > Vishal Belsare > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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@r-project.org 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.