R News 4/1 has an article on this dates and the last page contains a table with many date idioms.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Roslina Zakaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi R-expert, > If I have this daily rainfall data, how do call a particular set of data? > > Year,Month,Day,Amount > 1981,1,1,0 > 1981,1,2,0 > 1981,1,3,78 > 1981,1,4,22 > 1981,1,5,2 > 1981,1,6,0 > 1981,1,7,0 > 1981,1,8,0 > 1981,1,9,0 > 1981,1,10,10 > 1981,1,11,0 > 1981,1,12,108 > 1981,1,13,328 > 1981,1,14,10 > 1981,1,15,0 > 1981,1,16,6 > 1981,1,17,0 > 1981,1,18,28 > 1981,1,19,0 > 1981,1,20,0 > 1981,1,21,0 > 1981,1,22,0 > 1981,1,23,0 > 1981,1,24,0 > 1981,1,25,32 > 1981,1,26,0 > 1981,1,27,2 > 1981,1,28,0 > 1981,1,29,2 > 1981,1,30,0 > 1981,1,31,0 > 1981,2,1,0 > 1981,2,2,118 > 1981,2,3,0 > 1981,2,4,0 > 1981,2,5,0 > 1981,2,6,12 > 1981,2,7,0 > 1981,2,8,0 > 1981,2,9,46 > 1981,2,10,4 > 1981,2,11,0 > 1981,2,12,0 > 1981,2,13,0 > 1981,2,14,0 > 1981,2,15,0 > 1981,2,16,0 > 1981,2,17,0 > 1981,2,18,0 > 1981,2,19,0 > 1981,2,20,0 > 1981,2,21,4 > 1981,2,22,16 > 1981,2,23,0 > 1981,2,24,0 > 1981,2,25,2 > 1981,2,26,0 > 1981,2,27,0 > 1981,2,28,0 > 1981,3,1,0 > 1981,3,2,0 > 1981,3,3,0 > 1981,3,4,0 > 1981,3,5,0 > 1981,3,6,0 > 1981,3,7,0 > 1981,3,8,0 > 1981,3,9,106 > 1981,3,10,10 > 1981,3,11,0 > 1981,3,12,0 > 1981,3,13,0 > 1981,3,14,0 > 1981,3,15,32 > ... > For example, if I would like to extract january and february data, and use > 1/1/1901 as the origin. How do I use the dates function in R ? I did try to > lookup in the manual, but not sure how to apply it? > This is my code in S-plus. > define.date1<-function(dt1,mt1,mt2,nn,da) > { mt2<-mt2+1 > start<-julian(mt1, 1, nn, origin=c(month=1, day=1, year=1971))+1 > end<-julian(mt2, 1, nn, origin=c(month=1, day=1, year=1971))+da > a<-dt1[start:end,] > am<-as.matrix(a[,5]) > } > Thank you so much for your kind attention and help. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > ______________________________________________ > 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.