numeric. a Cristian year. It must be greater than 1867.
shift
logical. This is for manual adjustment in a particular year. The
default value is FALSE. See Details for more
information.
withAD
logical. If TRUE, the intact Christian year is also given in output. The
default value is FALSE.
ascii
logical. If TRUE, an abbreviation of gengo is used: "M", "T",
"S", and "H". If FALSE, the Kanji characters of gengo is provided. The default
value is FALSE.
Value
character
Details
Japan uses era systems, and on each emperor's reign it would constitute one
era. The Japanese traditional era name is widely used in official
statistics and documents instead of the Anno Domini system. Recently,
the year is often written in traditional form with Christian year,
e.g., H12 (2000), because Japanese year style without Christian one is
confusing even for Japanese.
jyear calculates such Japanese year from the given Christian
year. Is may be useful if the Japanese style is required in statistical
graphics or documents.
Since jyear dose not take account of month and day, an unexpected
output could be given for a particular year, during which an era changed
to a new one. The shift option should be set manually as TRUE in the
following period.
l{
from January 1 to July 29 in 1912
from January 1 to December 24 in 1926
from January 1 to 7 in 1989
}