> x <- strptime("20060319", format="%Y%m%d")
> x
[1] "2006-03-19"
> x$wday
[1] 0
>

definitions from '?POSIXt':

 'sec' 0-61: seconds

     'min' 0-59: minutes

     'hour' 0-23: hours

     'mday' 1-31: day of the month

     'mon' 0-11: months after the first of the year.

     'year' Years since 1900.

     'wday' 0-6 day of the week, starting on Sunday.

     'yday' 0-365: day of the year.





On 3/19/06, Fiona Hamilton <hamilton_f@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> R-Help
>
> Please can you tell me if there is a function within R
> that will return the day of any given date?
>
> Using 19 March 2006 as an example:
> given 20060319 (or any other date format) will return
> the day Sunday.
>
> Many thanks
> Fiona.
>
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