Re: [R] Adding to the years ...

2009-11-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There is some question of what should be returned if its Feb 29th and in 6 years Feb only has 28 days; however, that aside try this which does not involve any internals and works for both Date and chron dates: > y6 <- function(x) { + for(i in seq_along(x)) x[i] <- tail(seq(x[i], len = 7, by = "yea

[R] Adding to the years ...

2009-11-23 Thread Rolf Turner
I have a character vector of dates, comme ci: > irving [1] "12/05/1987" "11/07/1986" "08/29/1987" "01/26/1988" "06/21/1988" [6] "03/17/1987" "02/24/1988" "10/04/1986" "03/19/1987" "01/02/1987" For reasons best known to myself ( ;-) ) I want to add six years to the year in each of these dates