Try this: now <- Sys.time() seq(now, length = 2, by = "-2 days")[2]
and see R News 4/1 for more on dates. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Suresh_FSFM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear R- Exerts, > Seek your help. > > Suppose I have a variable "X" that stores a date: "2008-12-15 CET" > Now, I want to subtract 2 days (better two working days) from value stored > in "X". > Please let me know how to do so. > > Another variable "Y" stores timestamp as: 2008-11-28 00:09:00 > I want to subtract 2 days from "Y". > How to perfrm this subtraction? > > Thank you in advance. > > Regards, > Suresh > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-subtract-2-days-from-a-variable-storing-particular-date-tp21817414p21817414.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
