Here is an example that could probably be described as "adding a year":
dates <- c('2008-01-01','2009-03-02') tmp <- as.POSIXlt(dates)tmp$year <- tmp$year+1 dates2 <- format(tmp) > dates [1] "2008-01-01" "2009-03-02" > dates2 [1] "2009-01-01" "2010-03-02" ## to begin to understand how it works, give the command ## unclass(tmp) ## (and read the help pages ## ?as.POSIXlt ## ?DateTimeClasses Another example: dates <- as.Date(c('2008-01-01','2009-03-02')) tmp <- as.POSIXlt(dates) tmp$year <- tmp$year+1 dates2 <- as.Date(tmp) ## ?as.Date ## ?Date -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 11/16/11 8:33 PM, "arunkumar1111" <akpbond...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi > > I need to add an year to and date field in the dataframe. > >Please help me > >X Date >1 2008-01-01 >2 2008-02-01 >3 2003-03-01 > > >Thanks in advance > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Adding-a-year-to-existing-date-tp4078930p407 >8930.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >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.