[R] Counting number of rain

[Rolf Turner]

On 02/10/15 15:47, David Winsemius wrote:

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> On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>> P.S. I have been unable to find a corresponding vector of the names
>> of the days of the week, although I have a very vague recollection
>> of the existence of such a vector.  Does it exist, and if so what
>> is it called?
>
> It's could called up by strptime because it is mapped to a character
> vector by the internationalization database:
>
>> format( as.Date(1:7)+2, format="%A")
> [1] "Sunday"    "Monday"    "Tuesday"   "Wednesday" "Thursday"
> "Friday" [7] "Saturday"

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When I try that (copying and pasting your code so that there's no chance 
of fumble-fingering) I get:

> Error in as.Date.numeric(1:7) : 'origin' must be supplied

Why do these things always happen to *me*???

cheers,

Rolf

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