R-Help Please can you tell me if there is a function within R that will return the day of any given date? Using 19 March 2006 as an example: given 20060319 (or any other date format) will return the day Sunday. Many thanks Fiona.
> parsedDate <- strptime("03/19/06", "%m/%d/%y")> weekdays(parsedDate) [1] "Sunday" Fiona Hamilton wrote:> R-Help > > Please can you tell me if there is a function within R > that will return the day of any given date? > > Using 19 March 2006 as an example: > given 20060319 (or any other date format) will return > the day Sunday. > > Many thanks > Fiona. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 452-1424 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894
> x <- strptime("20060319", format="%Y%m%d") > x[1] "2006-03-19"> x$wday[1] 0>definitions from '?POSIXt': 'sec' 0-61: seconds 'min' 0-59: minutes 'hour' 0-23: hours 'mday' 1-31: day of the month 'mon' 0-11: months after the first of the year. 'year' Years since 1900. 'wday' 0-6 day of the week, starting on Sunday. 'yday' 0-365: day of the year. On 3/19/06, Fiona Hamilton <hamilton_f@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> > R-Help > > Please can you tell me if there is a function within R > that will return the day of any given date? > > Using 19 March 2006 as an example: > given 20060319 (or any other date format) will return > the day Sunday. > > Many thanks > Fiona. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 (Cell) +1 513 247 0281 (Home) What the problem you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]