Re: [R] Help with dates and characters

2010-06-29 Thread Allan Engelhardt
If the vector elements are (still) strings, you could simply try x<- c("2000-01-01", "2000-01-23", "2001-03-12", "2009-12-31") substring(x, 1, 7) # [1] "2000-01" "2000-01" "2001-03" "2009-12" Hope this helps a little. Allan On 29/06/10 14:36, Thomas Jensen wrote: Dear R Experts, I have a

Re: [R] Help with dates and characters

2010-06-29 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Thomas Jensen wrote: > Dear R Experts, > > I have a vector of dates in character format like this: > > date > "2000-01-01" > "2000-01-23" > "2001-03-12" > ... > ... > ... > "2009-12-31" > > I would like to delete the last part of the character string (i.e. the "day"

[R] Help with dates and characters

2010-06-29 Thread Thomas Jensen
Dear R Experts, I have a vector of dates in character format like this: date "2000-01-01" "2000-01-23" "2001-03-12" ... ... ... "2009-12-31" I would like to delete the last part of the character string (i.e. the "day" part), so the vector looks like this: date "2000-01" "2000-01" "2001-03"