[R] question about date's

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, ronggui wrote:

>> x<-as.Date(c("2005-07-01", "2005-07-02","2005-07-03","2005-07-04","2005-07-05"))
>> weekdays(x)
> [1] "ÐÇÆÚÎå" "ÐÇÆÚÁù" "ÐÇÆÚÈÕ" "ÐÇÆÚÒ»" "ÐÇÆÚ¶þ"
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>> months(x)
> [1] "ÆßÔÂ" "ÆßÔÂ" "ÆßÔÂ" "ÆßÔÂ" "ÆßÔÂ"


He asked for week numbers.  That's nothing like as easy, as it is not
well-defined.  But

> strftime(as.POSIXlt(x), "%U")
[1] "26" "26" "27" "27" "27"

is one possibility ("%W" is another).  This approach will do the other
requests just as easily.

> ======= 2005-12-12 20:17:38 ÄúÔÚÀ´ÐÅÖÐдµÀ£º=======
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>> Thanks!
>> That solves my problem for year numbers and month numbers
>> Any idea how to do this for week numbers?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Richard
>>
>> On 12/12/05, ronggui <042045003 at fudan.edu.cn> wrote:
>>> This is one way to do it.
>>>> x<-c("2005-07-01", "2005-07-02","2005-07-03","2005-07-04","2005-07-05")
>>>> x
>>> [1] "2005-07-01" "2005-07-02" "2005-07-03" "2005-07-04" "2005-07-05"
>>>> substr(x,1,4)
>>> [1] "2005" "2005" "2005" "2005" "2005"
>>>> substr(x,6,7)
>>> [1] "07" "07" "07" "07" "07"
>>>> substr(x,9,10)
>>> [1] "01" "02" "03" "04" "05"
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ======= 2005-12-12 20:06:00 ÄúÔÚÀ´ÐÅÖÐдµÀ£º=======
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Given a frame with calendar date's:
>>>>
>>>> "2005-07-01", "2005-07-02","2005-07-03","2005-07-04","2005-07-05",etc.
>>>>
>>>> I want to extract the following from these dates:
>>>>
>>>> week number
>>>> month number
>>>> year number
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas how to accomplish this?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Richard
>>>>
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