Hi, Anyone knows what would be a short way of extracting a month from a date in numeric or integer format? months("1979-12-20") returns "December" in character format. How could I get 12 in numeric or integer format? Thanks! G. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hi, perhaps: format.Date(as.Date("1979-12-20"), "%m") -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O On 21/08/07, Gonçalo Ferraz <gferraz29@gmail.com> wrote:> > Hi, > Anyone knows what would be a short way of extracting a month from a date > in > numeric or integer format? > > months("1979-12-20") > returns > "December" in character format. > > How could I get 12 in numeric or integer format? > > Thanks! > > G. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 8/21/07, Gon?alo Ferraz <gferraz29 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > Anyone knows what would be a short way of extracting a month from a date in > numeric or integer format? > > months("1979-12-20") > returns > "December" in character format. > > How could I get 12 in numeric or integer format? >Here are a few solutions: format(as.Date("1979-12-20"), "%m") as.POSIXlt(as.Date("1979-12-20"))$mo + 1 as.numeric(substring("1979-12-20", 6, 7)) as.numeric(factor(months(as.Date("1979-12-20"), abbrev = TRUE), levels = month.abb)) See R News 4/1 Help Desk article for more on dates.