btc1 wrote:
Hello, I have a vector, "dates", as a series of 3 digit elements, i.e. > date
[1] 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 528 708 708 708 708 708
708
[19] 708 708 708 708 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529 529
529
[37] 529 624
I need to convert them into julian, but have to insert a "/" or "-" after
the first number within each element of the vector (5/28 5/28 etc). Found
plenty functions to replace by a pattern but not to cut by a certain number
of digits with an element. Alternately, if I could run all the elements into
one long vector and then cut every one then two digits, that would work as
well.
And what about the year? You might have better luck using the Date
class in R.
#not tested
as.Date("05282010", format = "%m%d%Y")
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