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Rui Barradas

2012-Apr-11 16:21 UTC

[R] Date formate “ %y-%d-%m “ or “ %m-%d-%y “ ?

Hello,
>
> I would like to know for each variable what is date format?
> Is it  ? %y-%d-%m ?  or  ? %m-%d-%y ?   
> It's 4 digits, with uppercase 'Y'

Try

Data <- data.frame(var1=c("12-15-2011", "12-15-2011",
"12-17-2001"),
			var2=c("2001-15-12", "2001-15-01",
"2001-15-01"),
			stringsAsFactors=FALSE )
str(Data)

yr <- sapply(sapply(Data, strsplit, "-"), function(x)
which(nchar(x) == 4))
yr
[1] 3 3 3 1 1 1

To have the result with the same dimensions as your original data.frame
(but with a different class, I don't believe it matters)

matrix(yr, ncol=ncol(Data))

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


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R help - Apr 2012 - Date formate “ %y-%d-%m “ or “ %m-%d-%y “ ?

[R] Date formate “ %y-%d-%m “ or “ %m-%d-%y “ ?