Does this help. Shows how to use the basic functions to get at the answer:
> # add first day of month to make it valid
> x <- as.POSIXct(paste('1', 'sep2009', sep=''), format="%d%b%Y")
> # now advance one month and then go back one day for the end of the month
> next.mon <- seq(x, length=2, by='1 month')[2]
> last.day <- seq(next.mon, length=2, by='-1 day')[2]
> last.day
[1] "2009-09-30 GMT"
>
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, megh <megh700...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any R function to calculate automatically the last day of a
> particular month? For example "sep2009" should be converted to last day of
> September of 2009?
>
> Thanks
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