Dear Rui,
Thanks for your reply. But the command seems not to be working. I am getting 
the following error.
Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : invalid 'type' (character) of argument

Any idea? :(
Thanks,
Eliza


> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:48:08 +0100
> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt
> To: eliza_bo...@hotmail.com; r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] monthly sum
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Maybe the following will do.
> 
> 
> library(zoo)
> ym <- as.yearmon(dat$Date, "%d-%B-%y")
> aggregate(dat[,-1], list(ym), FUN = sum, na.rm = TRUE)
> 
> 
> Also, please use dput() to post data examples.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rui Barradas
> 
> Em 31-03-2014 18:31, eliza botto escreveu:
> > Dear useRs,
> > I have the data of following format. I have only pasted some part of the 
> > data. The data starts from 1961 and ends up in december 1987.
> >
> > dat <- read.table(text="Date A B C D1-Jan-61 0.00 1.27 8.128 0.252-Jan-61 
> > 6.10 9.144 94.742 15.493-Jan-61 0.00 0.508 1.27 0.004-Jan-61 0.00 0 NA 
> > 0.005-Jan-61 0.00 0 0 0.006-Jan-61 0.00 NA 0 0.007-Jan-61 0.00 0 0 
> > 0.008-Jan-61 0.00 NA 0 0.009-Jan-61 0.00 NA 0 NA10-Jan-61 0.00 4.064 4.826 
> > 0.76",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> >
> > I need to calculate the sum of each months of A,B,C and D. There are NA's 
> > in each column so whenever there is NA it should be ignored.
> > In the end we should have a table with 12 values for each year or all the 
> > for columns having dimension (12*number of years rows and 4 columns).
> >
> > Thankyou very much in advance
> > Eliza                                       
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