[R] what's the R command to make the following?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There are many ways to do this in R.  See R News 4/1 for info on dates.
Here is one method:

> library(chron)
> mdy <- month.day.year("05/16/2008")
> mdy
$month
[1] 5

$day
[1] 16

$year
[1] 2008

> mdy$month
[1] 5


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jack Luo<jluo.rhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple question, suppose I have the date "05/16/2008", what would
> be the command to get the month, day and year?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jack
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