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date_format: Formatting: date and date-time

Description

date_format() formats a date (Date) or date-time (POSIXct/POSIXlt) using a format string.

There are separate help pages for formatting dates and date-times:

  • dates (Date)

  • date-times (POSIXct/POSIXlt)

Usage

date_format(x, ...)

Value

A character vector of the formatted input.

Arguments

x

[Date / POSIXct / POSIXlt]

A date or date-time vector.

...

These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

Examples

Run this code
# See method specific documentation for more examples

x <- as.Date("2019-01-01")
date_format(x, format = "year: %Y, month: %m, day: %d")

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