[R] extracting months from a data

[Jeff Newmiller]

Your dates are incomplete (no year) so I suggest staying away from the date functions for this. Read ?regex and ?sub.

x <- c( "3-Oct", "10-Nov" )
m <- sub( "^\\d+-([A-Za-z]{3})$", "\\1", x )

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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On March 9, 2016 10:14:25 AM PST, KMNanus <kmnanus at gmail.com> wrote:
>I have a series of dates in  format 3-Oct, 10-Oct, 20-Oct, etc.
>
>I want to create a variable of just the month.  If I convert the date
>to a character string, substr is ineffective because some of the dates
>have 5 characters (3-Oct) and some have 6 (10-Oct).
>
>Is there a date function that accomplishes this easily?
>
>Ken
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