On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Mangalani Peter Makananisa
<pmakanan...@sars.gov.za> wrote:
> Dear R gurus,
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> I am currently using the chron package for date manipulation in R and I
> am able to control the date which take the format
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> - 1998/07/03, and
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> - 2006-09-15 (date without time)
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> Library(chron)
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> As.Date(2006-09-15, format = '%Y-%m-%d')
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> However I have a problem with the date containing only the year and
> month (i.e. 2006-09, 2007/08, 200609).
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zoo has a yearmon class for representing year and month without a date:
library(chron)
library(zoo)
as.chron(as.yearmon("2006-09"))
as.Date(as.yearmon("2006-09"))
or you may be able to just use the yearmon class directly: as.yearmon("2006-09")
See help(yearmon) in zoo.
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