[R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread Gallon Li
i have converted my data into date format like below: day=as.Date(originaldate,%m/%d/%Y) day[1:5] [1] 2008-04-12 2011-07-02 2011-09-02 2008-04-12 2008-04-12 I wish to select only those observations from 2007 to 2009, how can I select from this list? [[alternative HTML version

Re: [R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread Dante.py
I have a method which is not so smart --use grep to match the pattern. for example: dates - c(02/27/92, 02/27/92, 01/14/92, 02/28/92, 02/01/91) day - as.Date(dates, %m/%d/%y) day: [1] 1992-02-27 1992-02-27 1992-01-14 1992-02-28 1991-02-01 If I want to search for 1991, I can use: grep(1991-*, day)

Re: [R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 04/07/2013 08:04, Dante.py wrote: I have a method which is not so smart --use grep to match the pattern. for example: dates - c(02/27/92, 02/27/92, 01/14/92, 02/28/92, 02/01/91) day - as.Date(dates, %m/%d/%y) day: [1] 1992-02-27 1992-02-27 1992-01-14 1992-02-28 1991-02-01 If I want to search

Re: [R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread Dante.py
They are really good methods. Thank you very much. Could I ask one more question. Is there obvious difference between these two methods? 2013/7/4 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk On 04/07/2013 08:04, Dante.py wrote: I have a method which is not so smart --use grep to match the

Re: [R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 04/07/2013 11:36, Dante.py wrote: They are really good methods. Thank you very much. Could I ask one more question. Is there obvious difference between these two methods? Yes. It is obvious that the type of x differs. 2013/7/4 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk

Re: [R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread arun
(chron) yr1-month.day.year(unclass(day))$year day[yr1=2007 yr1=2009] #[1] 2008-04-12 2008-04-12 2008-04-12 A.K. - Original Message - From: Gallon Li gallon...@gmail.com To: r-help r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 2:31 AM Subject: [R] how to choose dates data? i

Re: [R] how to choose dates data?

2013-07-04 Thread David Carlson
of Anthropology Texas AM University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of arun Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 9:29 AM To: Gallon Li Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] how to choose dates data? Hi, You could