you can remove the leading zeros wirh the following regular expression; gsub("(^0|(/)0)", "\\2", format(asd, format = '%d/%m/%Y')) [1] "3/1/2012"
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks Jim for your reply. > > However I want "3/1/2012" not "03/01/2012" > > Any idea ? > > Thanks > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> > To: Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> > Sent: Thursday, 27 December 2012 1:01 AM > Subject: Re: [R] Working with date > > forgot you were asking for mdy format > >> # interchange day and month >> format(asd, format = '%d/%m/%Y') > [1] "03/01/2012" >> > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:14 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> try this: >> >>> asd <- as.Date("2012-01-03") >>> asd >> [1] "2012-01-03" >>> format(asd, format = '%m/%d/%Y') >> [1] "01/03/2012" >>> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> asd <- as.Date("2012-01-03") >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Holtman >> Data Munger Guru >> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.