Thanks Gabor,
The trick to solve my problem is the %j, many thanks. I've seen now
it's documented in the help page of strptime as you indicate.
But please note that using format="ymd" I do get a chron object
and note that the value is the date without the 2 first digits
> require(chron)
Loading required package: chron
> a <- chron("20100506",format="ymd")
> class(a)
[1] "dates" "times"
> a
[1] 100506
Also, the use of "ymd" is documented in the help page of chron():
"The dates format can be any permutation of the characters "d", "m",
or "y" delimited by a separator (possibly null), e.g., "m/d/y",
"d-m-y", "ymd", are all valid; "
Thanks!
Agus
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Agustin Lobo <agustin.l...@ictja.csic.es>
> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> Is not there an standard R function to retrieve the day of the year
>> (since 1st Jan of the same year)?
>> I know I can make my own using julian, but find it weird that having
>> days(), months() etc doy() does not exist as an standard function.
>>
>> Also, is the following not a bit inconsistent?
>>
>>> a <- chron("20100506",format="ymd")
>>> a
>> [1] 100506
>>> years(a)
>> [1] 2010
>> Levels: 2010
>>
>> but instead have to cast to Date to apply julian:
>>> julian(a)
>> Error in names(d) : 'd' is missing
>>> julian(as.Date(a))
>> [1] 14735
>> attr(,"origin")
>> [1] "1970-01-01"
>>
>
> First note that ymd does not work without a separator. We get a
> number rather than a chron date:
>
>> chron("20100506",format="ymd")
> [1] 100506
>
> Instead do it like this:
>
>> a <- as.chron("20100506", format = "%Y%m%d"); a
> [1] (05/06/10 00:00:00)
>> as.numeric(format(as.Date(a), format = "%j"))
> [1] 126
>
> If there are no times involved it might be simpler just to use Date in
> the first place:
>
>> d <- as.Date("20100506", format = "%Y%m%d"); d
> [1] "2010-05-06"
>> as.numeric(format(d, format = "%j"))
> [1] 126
>
> See ?strptime
>
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