> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Moshe Olshansky > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:21 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org Help; Liviu Andronic > Subject: Re: [R] expanding 1:12 months to Jan:Dec > > One possible (but not very elegant) solution is: > > > aa <- paste(1:12,":10:2009",sep="") > > dd<-as.Date(aa,format="%m:%d:%Y") > > mon <- format(dd,"%b") > > mon > [1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" > "Oct" "Nov" "Dec"
This is 'elegent' in that it gives the month names in the current locale. E.g., on my Windows machine: > invisible(Sys.setlocale(locale="Spanish")) > strftime(paste(sep="-", "2009", 1:12, 1), "%b") [1] "ene" "feb" "mar" "abr" "may" "jun" "jul" "ago" "sep" "oct" "nov" "dic" > invisible(Sys.setlocale(locale="German")) > strftime(paste(sep="-", "2009", 1:12, 1), "%b") [1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mrz" "Apr" "Mai" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Okt" "Nov" "Dez" Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division wdunlap tibco.com > > > --- On Thu, 20/8/09, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [R] expanding 1:12 months to Jan:Dec > > To: "r-help@r-project.org Help" <r-help@r-project.org> > > Received: Thursday, 20 August, 2009, 5:14 PM > > Dear R users > > I would like to do some spreadsheet style expansion of > > dates. For > > example, I would need to obtain a vector of months. I > > approached in an > > obviously wrong way: > > > paste(01:12) > > [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" > > "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" "11" "12" > > > as.Date(paste(01:12), "%m") > > [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA > > > > to subsequently format(.., "%b"). Other than writing the > > months > > manually, could anyone suggest an easier way to obtain such > > a list? > > Liviu > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Do you know how to read? > > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > > Do you know how to write? > > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
