On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, I have a date related question. Suppose I have a character string
> "March-2009", how I can convert it to a valid date object like
> as.yearmon("2009-01-03") in the zoo package? Is there any possibility there?Try this. The first returns a Date class object and the second returns a character string: > d <- "March-2009" > as.Date(as.yearmon(d, "%B-%Y")) [1] "2009-03-01" > format(as.Date(as.yearmon(d, "%B-%Y"))) [1] "2009-03-01" See R News 4/1 for more on times and dates. > > Ans secondly is there any R function which will give the names of of all > months as "LETTERS" does? > month.abb [1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct" "Nov" "Dec" > month.name [1] "January" "February" "March" "April" "May" "June" [7] "July" "August" "September" "October" "November" "December" ______________________________________________ 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.
