[R] Accessing date subfields

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

you can also do

as.POSIXlt(today)$mon

but I do not know if it is more efficient

HTH
Petr



On 20 Jun 2006 at 5:20, Maciej Radziejewski wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I can't figure out a "proper" way to extract the month number from a
> Date class variable. I can do it like this:
> 
> > today <- as.Date(Sys.time())
> > as.integer (format.Date (today, "%m"))
> 
> but it must be inefficient, since I convert a date to text and back to
> a number. I tried:
> 
>  > months(today)
> 
> but the months() function returns the name of the month, not the month
> number. I need to process some time series of station data using 
> season-dependent criteria, so I need the months numerically.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> Maciej.
> 
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Petr Pikal
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