Something like this?
> as.Date(ISOdate(1998,1,1))+(1:100)-1
[1] "1998-01-01" "1998-01-02" "1998-01-03" "1998-01-04" "1998-01-05"
[6] "1998-01-06" "1998-01-07" "1998-01-08" "1998-01-09" "1998-01-10"
[11] "1998-01-11" "1998-01-12" "1998-01-13" "1998-01-14" "1998-01-15"
[16] "1998-01-16" "1998-01-17" "1998-01-18" "1998-01-19" "1998-01-20"
[21] "1998-01-21" "1998-01-22" "1998-01-23" "1998-01-24" "1998-01-25"
[26] "1998-01-26" "1998-01-27" "1998-01-28" "1998-01-29" "1998-01-30"
[31] "1998-01-31" "1998-02-01" "1998-02-02" "1998-02-03" "1998-02-04"
[36] "1998-02-05" "1998-02-06" "1998-02-07" "1998-02-08" "1998-02-09"
[41] "1998-02-10" "1998-02-11" "1998-02-12" "1998-02-13" "1998-02-14"
[46] "1998-02-15" "1998-02-16" "1998-02-17" "1998-02-18" "1998-02-19"
[51] "1998-02-20" "1998-02-21" "1998-02-22" "1998-02-23" "1998-02-24"
[56] "1998-02-25" "1998-02-26" "1998-02-27" "1998-02-28" "1998-03-01"
[61] "1998-03-02" "1998-03-03" "1998-03-04" "1998-03-05" "1998-03-06"
[66] "1998-03-07" "1998-03-08" "1998-03-09" "1998-03-10" "1998-03-11"
[71] "1998-03-12" "1998-03-13" "1998-03-14" "1998-03-15" "1998-03-16"
[76] "1998-03-17" "1998-03-18" "1998-03-19" "1998-03-20" "1998-03-21"
[81] "1998-03-22" "1998-03-23" "1998-03-24" "1998-03-25" "1998-03-26"
[86] "1998-03-27" "1998-03-28" "1998-03-29" "1998-03-30" "1998-03-31"
[91] "1998-04-01" "1998-04-02" "1998-04-03" "1998-04-04" "1998-04-05"
[96] "1998-04-06" "1998-04-07" "1998-04-08" "1998-04-09" "1998-04-10"
Or, if you want month numbers and day of month as numerics:
> as.POSIXlt(as.Date(ISOdate(1998,1,1))+(1:100)-1)$mon
[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
[38] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
[75] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
> as.POSIXlt(as.Date(ISOdate(1998,1,1))+(1:100)-1)$mday
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
[26] 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
[51] 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
[76] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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> On 16 Jan 2021, at 07:48 , Jibrin Alhassan wrote:
>
> Hi Barradas
> Sorry for the delay. Below is a section of my data. I have up to 1826
> covering 1998 to 2002
> year day Hr SWS
> 1998 1 0 344.
> 1998 2 0 346.
> 1998 3 0 356.
> 1998 4 0 332.
> 1998 5 0 302.
> 1998 6 0 329.
> 1998 7 0 395.
> 1998 8 0 359.
> 1998 9 0 471.
> 1998 10 0 392.
> 1998 11 0 346.
> 1998 12 0 387.
> 1998 13 0 393.
> 1998 14 0 367.
> 1998 15 0 320.
> 1998 16 0 309.
> 1998 17 0 341.
> 1998 18 0 329.
> 1998 19 0 322.
> 1998 20 0 429.
> 1998 21 0 433.
> 1998 22 0 398.
> 1998 23 0 393.
> 1998 24 0 393.
> 1998 25 0 423.
> 1998 26 0 426.
> 1998 27 0 429.
> 1998 28 0 386.
> 1998 29 0 381.
> 1998 30 0 375.
> 1998 31 0 365.
> 1998 32 0 450.
> 1998 33 0 381.
> 1998 34 0 316.
> 1998 35 0 351.
> 1998 36 0 306.
> 1998 37 0 312.
> 1998 38 0 320.
> 1998 39 0 339.
> 1998 40 0 395.
> 1998 41 0 429.
> 1998 42 0 479.
> 1998 43 0 495.
> 1998 44 0 407.
> 1998 45 0 358.
> 1998 46 0 360.
> 1998 47 0 382.
> 1998 48 0 394.
> 1998 49 0 393.
> 1998 50 0 435.
> 1998 51 0 408.
> 1998 52 0 360.
> 1998 53 0 372.
> 1998 54 0 376.
> 1998 55 0 379.
> 1998 56 0 361.
> 1998 57 0 333.
> 1998 58 0 321.
> 1998 59 0 344.
> 1998 60 0 412.
> 1998 61 0 428.
> 1998 62 0 401.
> 1998 63 0 369.
> 1998 64 0 343.
> 1998 65 0 330.
> 1998 66 0 317.
> 1998 67 0 296.
> 1998 68 0 282.
> 1998 69 0 404.
> 1998 70 0 530.
> 1998 71 0 525.
> 1998 72 0 484.
> 1998 73 0 430.
> 1998 74 0 388.
> 1998 75 0 347.
> 1998 76 0 337.
> 1998 77 0 342.
> 1998 78 0 305.
> 1998 79 0 329.
> 1998 80 0 420.
> 1998 81 0 564.
> 1998 82 0 483.
> 1998 83 0 385.
> 1998 84 0 393.
> 1998 85 0 437.
> 1998 86 0 441.
> 1998 87 0 434.
> 1998 88 0 471.
> 1998 89 0 429.
> 1998 90 0 412.
> 1998 91 0 370.
> 1998 92 0 326.
> 1998 93 0 357.
> 1998 94 0 338.
> 1998 95 0 380.
> 1998 96 0 339.
> 1998 97 0 312.
> 1998 98 0 313.
> 1998 99 0 327.
> 1998 100 0 362.
> 1998 101 0 358.
> 1998 102 0 387.
> 1998 103 0 397.
> 1998 104 0 375.
> 1998 105 0 350.
> 1998 106 0 357.
> 1998 107 0 472.
> 1998 108 0 526.
> 1998 109 0 396.
> 1998 110 0 374.
> 1998 111 0 376.
> 1998 112 0 355.
> 1998 113 0 343.
> 1998 114 0 425.
> 1998 115 0 426.
> 1998 116 0 479.
> 1998 117 0 469.
> 1998 118 0 425.
> 1998 119 0 344.
> 1998 120 0 341.
> 1998 121 0 426.
> 1998 122 0 601.
> 1998 123 0 476.
> 1998 124 0 670.
> 1998 125 0 585.
> 1998 126 0 496.
> 1998 127 0 479.
> 1998 128 0 569.
> 1998 129 0 531.
> 1998 130 0 489.
> 1998 131