Couple of choices depending on what you want to do with the data: > x <- as.POSIXct("05/16/2008", format="%m/%d/%Y") # if you want to use the date > format(x, "%d") # day [1] "16" > format(x, "%m") # month [1] "05" > format(x, "%Y") # year [1] "2008" > # or > y <- strsplit("05/16/2008", '/') # to just get the characters > y [[1]] [1] "05" "16" "2008" >
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jack Luo <jluo.rh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple question, suppose I have the date "05/16/2008", what would > be the command to get the month, day and year? > > Thanks, > > -Jack > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.