[R] Date conversion

[Felipe Carrillo]

Thanks Joshua, I wanted to use some kind of date format in latex
but ended up using exactly what you and Marc suggested.
 
Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish & Wildlife Service
California, USA



----- Original Message ----
> From: Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com>
> To: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 1:18:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Date conversion
> 
> 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
<> href="mailto:mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com">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
http://www.joshuawiley.com/