[R] Reformatting dates using chron

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrew Criswell wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> I am trying to generate a sequence of dates using library(chron). Using the following code, I got most of what I want,
>
>          dts <- seq.dates("01/02/1998", "01/10/2001", by="day")
>          dts <- dts[!is.weekend(dts)]
>
> a sequence of weekdays only (no weekend dates), with first observation appearing as 01/02/98 and the last 01/10/01. But I would like it to appear as 1998/01/02 to 2001/01/10.
>
> Is there some way to change the order of the output and allow "year" to appear with four digits and slash signs between year, month and day?
>
> (I am using R 1.2.0 on a Windows 2000 platform.)

That's how they print.

attr(dts, "format") <- "y/m/d"

gives

> dts[1]
[1] 98/01/02

I can't get `year' to work in there, so try

format(as.POSIXct(dts), "%Y/%m/%d")

which does work and is very flexible.

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