On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:49 AM, <kurt_h...@nps.gov> wrote:
> Greetings
> I'm having difficulty witht the strptime function. I can't seem to
> figure a way to strip month (name) and year and create separate columns
> from a column with MM/DD/YYYY formatted dates. Can anyone help?
Try month.day.year in chron:
> library(chron)
> dat <- as.Date(c("6/12/2009", "4/15/2010"), "%m/%d/%Y")
> month.day.year(dat)
$month
[1] 6 4
$day
[1] 12 15
$year
[1] 2009 2010
> # or
> as.data.frame(month.day.year(dat))
month day year
1 6 12 2009
2 4 15 2010
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