[R] extracting months from a data

[Dalthorp, Daniel]

?as.Date

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:14 AM, 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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