A good place to start might be http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i03/paper for the lubridate package or have a look at the zoo package
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: yash.kaja...@gmail.com > Sent: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:15:00 +0530 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] date & time manipulation- R 2.15.1 windows 7 > > Hi, > I wanted to learn how to solve a date and time manipulation where i > can > do the following two > 1. difference of two dates eg (differnce between 5th jan 2013 and 1st > jan 2013) > > 2.Suppose i have week number of the year, i want to know if i can > find > out the day it refers to eg( say week 2 of 2013 would be 6th jan 2013 > and > the day is sunday) > i need my result to tell me that its the 6th of jan 2013 as well > as > the day (sunday) > > Can u please help me out? > > Thanks, > Yashvardhan Kajaria > > [[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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! ______________________________________________ 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.