Thanks Joshua, I wanted to use some kind of date format in latex but ended up using exactly what you and Marc suggested. Felipe D. Carrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA
----- Original Message ---- > From: Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> > To: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 1:18:27 PM > Subject: Re: [R] Date conversion > > Hello Felipe, Is this what you want? format(as.Date("3/10/10", > format="%m/%d/%y"), "%B %d, %Y") Josh On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:29 > AM, Felipe Carrillo <> href="mailto:mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com">mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > Hi: > Can't find a way to convert from shortDate to > LongDate format. I got: > 3/10/10 that I want to convert to March 10, > 2010. I am using: > > \documentclass[11pt]{article} > > \usepackage{longtable,verbatim} > \usepackage{ctable} > > \usepackage{datetime} > \title{my title} > \begin{document} > > % Convert date > \mmmmddyyyydate\3/10/10 > > end{document} > > My report is changing every two weeks so I will > eventually > use \Sexpr{report[1,1]} to grab the date from column 1, row > 1 > of a table named "report" but right now my report has the date > > formated as described above (3/10/10). > > > Felipe D. > Carrillo > Supervisory Fishery Biologist > Department of the > Interior > US Fish & Wildlife Service > California, > USA > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > ymailto="mailto:R-help@r-project.org" > href="mailto:R-help@r-project.org">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. > -- > Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, > Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.