gdata (version 2.18.0)

getYear: Get date/time parts from date and time objects

Description

get* functions provide an *experimental* approach for extracting the date/time parts from objects of a date/time class. They are designed to be intiutive and thus lowering the learning curve for work with date and time classes in R.

Usage

getYear(x, format, …)
getMonth(x, format, …)
getDay(x, format, …)
getHour(x, format, …)
getMin(x, format, …)
getSec(x, format, …)

Arguments

x

generic, date/time object

format

character, format

…

arguments pased to other methods

Value

Character

See Also

Date, DateTimeClasses, strptime

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## --- Date class ---

tmp <- Sys.Date()
tmp

getYear(tmp)
getMonth(tmp)
getDay(tmp)

## --- POSIXct class ---

tmp <- as.POSIXct(tmp)

getYear(tmp)
getMonth(tmp)
getDay(tmp)

## --- POSIXlt class ---

tmp <- as.POSIXlt(tmp)

getYear(tmp)
getMonth(tmp)
getDay(tmp)

# }