R help - Apr 2019 - Complete month name from as.yearmon()

Hi,

I am wondering if there is any way to get the full name from as.yearmon()
function. Please consider below example:

library(quantmod)
as.yearmon(Sys.Date())

This gives: [1] "Apr 2019".

How can I extract the full name ie. 'April 2019'

Appreciate your pointer. Thanks,

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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if there is any way to get the full name from as.yearmon()
> function. Please consider below example:
>
> library(quantmod)
> as.yearmon(Sys.Date())
>
> This gives: [1] "Apr 2019".
>
> How can I extract the full name ie. 'April 2019'
Internally, printing/formatting of yearmon objects uses the format method 
for Date objects, see ?format.Date. The default is "%b %Y" where %b is
the
abbreviated month name in the current locale. %B gives you the full month 
name, both for Date directly and for yearmon:

R> format(Sys.Date(), "%B %Y")
[1] "April 2019"
R> format(as.yearmon(Sys.Date()), "%B %Y")
[1] "April 2019"

> Appreciate your pointer. Thanks,
>
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>>>>> "CB" == Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer
at gmail.com> writes:
    CB> Hi,
    CB> I am wondering if there is any way to get the full name from
as.yearmon()
    CB> function. Please consider below example:

    CB> library(quantmod)
    CB> as.yearmon(Sys.Date())

    CB> This gives: [1] "Apr 2019".

    CB> How can I extract the full name ie. 'April 2019'

    CB> Appreciate your pointer. Thanks,


library("zoo")   ## where 'as.yearmon' comes from
format(as.yearmon(Sys.Date()), "%B %Y")
## [1] "April 2019"

Note that this will give you the full monthname in your
locale.


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