Hi,

perhaps:
format.Date(as.Date("1979-12-20"), "%m")

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Henrique Dallazuanna
Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil
25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O

On 21/08/07, Gonçalo Ferraz <gferraz29@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Anyone knows what would be a short way of extracting a month from a date
> in
> numeric or integer format?
>
> months("1979-12-20")
> returns
> "December" in character format.
>
> How could I get 12 in numeric or integer format?
>
> Thanks!
>
> G.
>
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