[R] Generating date variables

[Joerg Maeder]

Hello,

one way is
#generate a date sequence
a <- seq(ISOdate(2001,1,1,0), ISOdate(2001,12,31,0),"days")
#extract the part that is neede (date, without time)
a <- strptime(as.character(a),format="%Y-%m-%d")
#convert it to the wished format
strftime(a,format="%m/%d/%Y")

gruess

joerg

Mark Scarr wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I would like to generate a vector of dates
> to plot on a graph (i.e a string vector)
> for example 05/04/2001 would be 4th May 2001
> (American format).
> I need to do this for a complete year, taking into
> account number of days in the month, leap year etc...
> Is there an easy way to do this in R?
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark.
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