[R] Choosing specific Date Range from non-sequential Date

[Bert Gunter]

I would guess that you first need to convert your textual dates to a
date-time object via as.date, but as you failed to provide a reproducible
example (e.g. via dput) I may be wrong. Maybe others may have greater
insight.

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:55 AM Ogbos Okike <giftedlife2014 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Contributors,
> I have a data frame of the form:
> 1997-11-23 -2.91709629064653
> 1997-12-07 -0.960255426066815
> 1997-12-11 -1.98210752999868
> 1997-12-20 -1.10800598439855
> 1998-01-01 -1.00090115428118
> 1998-01-29 -1.03056081882709
> 1998-03-27 -0.873243859498216
> 1998-04-09 -2.06378384750109
> 1998-04-12 -2.06826431469008
> 1998-04-19 -2.49834620746286
> 1998-05-02 -6.4357083781542
> 1998-05-17 -2.25359807972754
> 1998-05-21 -2.55799006865995
> 1999-08-22 -2.25114162617707
> 1999-08-25 -1.47905397376409
> 1999-09-05 -0.641589808755325
> 1999-09-09 -0.648954682695949
> 1999-09-13 -0.726364489272492
> 1999-09-16 -1.28445236942011
>
> The events happen randomly and so the date is non-sequential. It run form
> 1953 to 2019.
>
> I would like to select all the events/dates between 1998 to 2005.
>
> One of the things I tried is:
> Year <- subset(MOSCFD50, date > "1998-01-01" & date < "2005-12-31").
>
> But it didn't work.
>
> I would be thankful if you could please redirect me.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Best regards
> Ogbos
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