[R] Date conversion

[Joshua Wiley]

Hello Felipe,

Is this what you want?

format(as.Date("3/10/10", format="%m/%d/%y"), "%B %d, %Y")

Josh

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Felipe Carrillo
<mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> Can't find a way to convert from shortDate to LongDate format. I got:
> 3/10/10 that I want to convert to March 10, 2010. I am using:
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{longtable,verbatim}
> \usepackage{ctable}
> \usepackage{datetime}
> \title{my title}
> \begin{document}
>   % Convert date
> \mmmmddyyyydate\3/10/10
> end{document}
>
> My report is changing every two weeks so I will eventually
> use \Sexpr{report[1,1]} to grab the date from column 1, row 1
> of a table named "report" but right now my report has the date
> formated as described above (3/10/10).
>
>
> Felipe D. Carrillo
> Supervisory Fishery Biologist
> Department of the Interior
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> California, USA
>
>
>
>
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Joshua Wiley
Senior in Psychology
University of California, Riverside
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