DescTools (version 0.99.53)

Zodiac: Calculate the Zodiac of a Date

Description

Calculate the sign of zodiac of a date.

Usage

Zodiac(x, lang = c("engl", "deu"), stringsAsFactors = TRUE)

Value

character vector or factor with the zodiac.

Arguments

x

the date to be transformed.

lang

the language of the zodiac names, can be english (default) or german ("deu").

stringsAsFactors

logical. If set to TRUE (default) the result will consist of a factor with zodiac signs as levels.

Author

Andri Signorell <[e-mail]>, based on code from Markus Naepflin

Details

The really relevant things can sometimes hardly be found. You just discovered such a function... ;-)

The following rule to determine zodiac symbols is implemented:

Dec. 22  - Jan. 19  : Capricorn 
Jan. 20  - Feb. 17  : Aquarius 
Feb. 18  - Mar. 19  : Pisces 
March 20 - April 19 : Aries 
April 20 - May 19   : Taurus 
May 20   - June 20  : Gemini 
June 21  - July 21  : Cancer 
July 22  - Aug. 22  : Leo 
Aug 23   - Sept. 21 : Virgo 
Sept. 22 - Oct. 22  : Libran 
Oct. 23  - Nov. 21  : Scorpio 
Nov. 22  - Dec. 21  : Sagittarius

See Also

Year and other date functions

Examples

Zodiac(as.Date(c("1937-07-28", "1936-06-01", "1966-02-25",
                 "1964-11-17", "1972-04-25")), lang="deu")

d <- sample(seq(as.Date("2015-01-01"), as.Date("2015-12-31"), 1), 120)
z <- Zodiac(d)
Desc(z)