R help - Oct 2010 - strip month and year from MM/DD/YYYY format

Greetings
    I'm having difficulty witht the strptime function.  I can't seem to
figure a way to strip month (name) and year and create separate columns
from a column with MM/DD/YYYY formatted dates.  Can anyone help?
Cheers
Kurt

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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:49 AM,  <Kurt_Helf at nps.gov>
wrote:
> Greetings
> ? ?I'm having difficulty witht the strptime function. ?I can't seem
to
> figure a way to strip month (name) and year and create separate columns
> from a column with MM/DD/YYYY formatted dates. ?Can anyone help?

Try month.day.year in chron:
> library(chron)
> dat <- as.Date(c("6/12/2009", "4/15/2010"),
"%m/%d/%Y")
> month.day.year(dat)
$month
[1] 6 4

$day
[1] 12 15

$year
[1] 2009 2010
> # or
> as.data.frame(month.day.year(dat))
  month day year
1     6  12 2009
2     4  15 2010



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