MODIS (version 1.1.7)

transDate: MODIS Date Conversion and Testing

Description

This function converts a sequence of input dates to 'YYYY-MM-DD' and 'YYYYDDD'.

Usage

transDate(begin = NULL, end = NULL)

Arguments

begin, end

Date or character. Begin and end date of MODIS time series, see Note. If not provided, this defaults to "1972-01-01" (Sys.Date()).

Value

A list of begin and end dates formatted according to 'YYYY-MM-DD' (first two slots; class Date) and 'YYYYDDD' (second two slots; class character).

See Also

strptime.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
transDate()
transDate(begin = "2009.01.01") # ends with current date
transDate(end = "2009.01.01") # starts with Landsat 1
transDate(begin = c("2009-01-01", "2010-01-01"), end = "2011.03.16")
               
# }