[R] Need help in handling date

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, I have a date related question. Suppose I have a character string
> "March-2009", how I can convert it to a valid date object like
> as.yearmon("2009-01-03") in the zoo package? Is there any possibility there?

Try this.  The first returns a Date class object and the second
returns a character string:

> d <- "March-2009"
> as.Date(as.yearmon(d, "%B-%Y"))
[1] "2009-03-01"
> format(as.Date(as.yearmon(d, "%B-%Y")))
[1] "2009-03-01"

See R News 4/1 for more on times and dates.

>
> Ans secondly is there any R function which will give the names of of all
> months as "LETTERS" does?

> month.abb
 [1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct" "Nov" "Dec"
> month.name
 [1] "January"   "February"  "March"     "April"     "May"       "June"
 [7] "July"      "August"    "September" "October"   "November"  "December"