[R] A solution for question about formatting Dates

[R. Michael Weylandt]

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Michael

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again:
>
> Here is a solution to the dates without leading zeros:
>
> pou1 <- function(x) {
>     #Note:  x is a data frame
>     #Assume that Column 1 has the date
>     #Column 2 has station
>     #Column 3 has min
>     #Column 4 has max
>     library(stringr)
>     w <- character(length=nrow(x))
>     z <- str_split(x[,1],"/")
>     for(i in 1:nrow(x)) {
>           u <-  str_pad(z[[i]][1:3],width=2,pad="0")
>           w[i] <- paste(u,sep="",collapse="/")
>
>           }
>     a <- as.Date(w,"%m/%d/%Y")
>
> This is not particularly elegant, but it does the trick.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>
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