[R] Month names

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Roger" == Roger D Peng <rpeng at jhsph.edu>
>>>>>     on Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:09 -0400 writes:

    Roger> How about `month.name'?

English only.

Note that he got the names in Danish (I think)
Martin

    Roger> BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:
    >> This is how I get the month names from within R:
    >> 
    >> 
    >>> mon <- rep(strptime("01/01/1952", format = "%d/%m/%Y"), 12)
    >>> mon$mon <- mon$mon + 0:11
    >>> mnam <- months(mon, abbreviate = F)
    >>> mnam
    >> 
    >> [1] "januar"    "februar"   "marts"     "april"     "maj"       "juni"
    >> "juli"      "august"    "september"
    >> [10] "oktober"   "november"  "december" 
    >> 
    >> Surely someone on the list can beat that in elegance?
    >> 
    >> Bendix Carstensen
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