[R] Counting number of rain

[peter dalgaard]

> On 01 Oct 2015, at 23:04 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> On 02/10/15 03:45, David L Carlson wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
>> If you want the month names:
>> 
>>> mnt <- c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
>> + "July", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec")
>>> dimnames(tbl)$Month <- mnt
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> Unnecessary typing; there is a built-in data set "month.abb" (in the
> "base" package) that is identical to your "mnt".
> 
> Difficult (nearly impossible!) to find, but, if you can't quite remember the name!  I *knew* I'd seen it, so I persisted and eventually tracked it down.
> 
> Strangely ??month or help.search("month") yield no trace of it.  Pages and pages of (useless!) output but no sign of "month.abb" (nor of "month.name" which gives the unabbreviated month names).
> 
> Can anyone explain to me why "??" and help.search() are of no help here?

Umm,

-------
Help files with alias or concept or title matching ‘month’ using fuzzy
matching:


base::Constants         Built-in Constants
  Aliases: month.abb, month.name
....
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Also, entering "month<TAB><TAB>" gives the completions

> month
month.abb      monthplot      months.Date    
month.name     months         months.POSIXt  

-pd

> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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