Hi Jim, Sorry, it fails. Tx for catching. asd1 <- as.Date(c("2012-01-03","2012-12-25","2012-01-12","2012-10-01")) gsub("(.*/)0(.*/.*)","\\1\\2",gsub("^0(.*/.*/.*)","\\1",format(asd1,"%d/%m/%Y"))) #[1] "3/1/2012" "25/12/2012" "12/1/2012" "1/10/2012"
A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> To: arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> Cc: Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com>; R help <r-help@r-project.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [R] Working with date what happens with 25/12/2012? Sent from my iPad On Dec 26, 2012, at 20:22, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > gsub("^\\d(.*/)\\d(.*/.*)","\\1\\2",format(asd,"%d/%m/%Y")) > #[1] "3/1/2012" > A.K. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> > To: jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> > Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 2:25 PM > Subject: Re: [R] Working with date > > Thanks Jim for your reply. > > However I want "3/1/2012" not "03/01/2012" > > Any idea ? > > Thanks > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> > To: Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> > Sent: Thursday, 27 December 2012 1:01 AM > Subject: Re: [R] Working with date > > forgot you were asking for mdy format > >> # interchange day and month >> format(asd, format = '%d/%m/%Y') > [1] "03/01/2012" >> > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:14 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> try this: >> >>> asd <- as.Date("2012-01-03") >>> asd >> [1] "2012-01-03" >>> format(asd, format = '%m/%d/%Y') >> [1] "01/03/2012" >>> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> asd <- as.Date("2012-01-03") >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Holtman >> Data Munger Guru >> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.