If I have data (below) and need some help in figuring out how I can change the values of my date column, so that a year will be from September-August? So the year 1990 = September 89-August 90; 1991 = September 90-August 91, etc...
I was trying to use the if() function, but am unable to figure it out. I basically need to change the years associated with September-December to the following year. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I will have to power through it and do it all manually in excel. I am sorry that I do not have the original data associated with this posting, nor any R code with it. I really do not have a clue how to even start designating the new year. head(mydata) class(mydata) "data.frame" site date precipitation temp_max temp_min 1 Castle Peak January-70 0 32 18 2 Castle Peak January-70 0 39 9 3 Castle Peak January-70 0 34 5 4 Castle Peak January-70 0 30 7 5 Castle Peak January-70 0 40 6 6 Castle Peak January-70 0 45 10 Thank you in advance and please let me know what else I can include to help solve this issue. this is my first posting on R-help. Nick Pardikes PhD Student Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology University of Nevada, Reno 303-550-1072 http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/npardikes/MySite/Welcome.html [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.