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Ista Zahn
izahn at psych.rochester.edu
Wed Dec 1 13:41:30 CET 2010
Hi Bill,
Please keep the R list copied.
I don't think you've given enough information to pin down your
problem. This works:
dat <- read.table(textConnection("dates returns
2000-1-4 -0.038344718
2000-1-5 0.001922225
2000-1-6 0.000955702
2000-1-7 0.027090384
2000-1-10 0.011189966
2000-1-11 -0.013062569
2000-1-12 -0.004386331
2000-1-13 0.012169663
2000-1-14 0.010671321
2000-1-18 -0.006832065
2000-1-19 0.000522287
2000-1-20 -0.007095268
2000-1-21 -0.002912346"), header=TRUE)
closeAllConnections()
attach(dat)
i=1
while(i<14){
if(weekdays(as.Date(dates[i])) == "Monday"){
print ("yes")
}
else {
print("no")
}
i=1+i
}
detach(dat)
Best,
Ista
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Bill Yang <gy631223 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ista,
> I appreciate for your reply.
> I am running into another problem now, the following is my date (example)
> 2000-1-4 -0.038344718
> 2000-1-5 0.001922225
> 2000-1-6 0.000955702
> 2000-1-7 0.027090384
> 2000-1-10 0.011189966
> 2000-1-11 -0.013062569
> 2000-1-12 -0.004386331
> 2000-1-13 0.012169663
> 2000-1-14 0.010671321
> 2000-1-18 -0.006832065
> 2000-1-19 0.000522287
> 2000-1-20 -0.007095268
> 2000-1-21 -0.002912346
> Let's focus on the dates, by using weekdays(as.Date('2010-11-30')) ==
> "Monday", im supposed to find the monday return (2nd column)
> i create an array which includes the dates, let's call it dates. then when i
> plug in the dates into the following codes
> i=1
> while(i<14){
> if(weekdays(as.Date(dates[i])) == "Monday"){
> pirnt ("yes")
> }
> else {
> print("no")
> }
> i=1+i
> }
> the programe does not run properly.......cuz im expecting to see "yes" been
> returned (there is not any "no" returned, all of them are "yes"......). i
> guess dates[i] returns "2010-1-1", but the as.Date requires '2010-1-1'..
> please help me out. I appreciate.
> Bill
>
>
>> From: izahn at psych.rochester.edu
>> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:59:50 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [R] Welcome to the "R-help" mailing list
>> To: gy631223 at hotmail.com
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>> You might be working too hard. Consider:
>> > weekdays(as.Date('2010-11-30')) == "Monday"
>> [1] FALSE
>> > weekdays(as.Date('2010-11-29')) == "Monday"
>> [1] TRUE
>> >
>>
>> HTH,
>> Ista
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Bill Yang <gy631223 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi there,
>> > I am having problem of matching string. what i want is when i type a
>> > date such as 2010-11-30, the function will return the day (monday, tuesday,
>> > wednesday, thursday, friday or staturday). then i want another function will
>> > return true if the return of the day is monday, return false if the return
>> > of the day is not monday.
>> > I already find the weekdays(as.Date('2010-11-30')) function which will
>> > tell me exactly what day its gonna be. however, i am having problem of
>> > return True or False whether or not the return day has matched.
>> > please help me out. I appreciate.
>> > Bill
>> > P.S the following is the partial
>> > codes.if(match(weekdays(as.Date('2010-11-30'), "Monday")==1){print("yes")}
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> --
>> Ista Zahn
>> Graduate student
>> University of Rochester
>> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
>> http://yourpsyche.org
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Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org
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