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base (version 3.3.1)

weekdays: Extract Parts of a POSIXt or Date Object

Description

Extract the weekday, month or quarter, or the Julian time (days since some origin). These are generic functions: the methods for the internal date-time classes are documented here.

Usage

weekdays(x, abbreviate) "weekdays"(x, abbreviate = FALSE) "weekdays"(x, abbreviate = FALSE)
months(x, abbreviate) "months"(x, abbreviate = FALSE) "months"(x, abbreviate = FALSE)
quarters(x, abbreviate) "quarters"(x, ...) "quarters"(x, ...)
julian(x, ...) "julian"(x, origin = as.POSIXct("1970-01-01", tz = "GMT"), ...) "julian"(x, origin = as.Date("1970-01-01"), ...)

Arguments

x
an object inheriting from class "POSIXt" or "Date".
abbreviate
logical vector (possibly recycled). Should the names be abbreviated?
origin
an length-one object inheriting from class "POSIXt" or "Date".
...
arguments for other methods.

Value

weekdays and months return a character vector of names in the locale in use.quarters returns a character vector of "Q1" to "Q4".julian returns the number of days (possibly fractional) since the origin, with the origin as a "origin" attribute. All time calculations in R are done ignoring leap-seconds.

See Also

DateTimeClasses, Date