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base (version 3.3)

weekdays: Extract Parts of a POSIXt or Date Object

Description

Extract the weekday, month or quarter, or the Julian time (days since some origin). These are generic functions: the methods for the internal date-time classes are documented here.

Usage

weekdays(x, abbreviate)
## S3 method for class 'POSIXt':
weekdays(x, abbreviate = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'Date':
weekdays(x, abbreviate = FALSE)
months(x, abbreviate)
## S3 method for class 'POSIXt':
months(x, abbreviate = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'Date':
months(x, abbreviate = FALSE)
quarters(x, abbreviate)
## S3 method for class 'POSIXt':
quarters(x, \dots)
## S3 method for class 'Date':
quarters(x, \dots)
julian(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'POSIXt':
julian(x, origin = as.POSIXct("1970-01-01", tz = "GMT"), ...)
## S3 method for class 'Date':
julian(x, origin = as.Date("1970-01-01"), ...)

Arguments

x
an object inheriting from class "POSIXt" or "Date".
abbreviate
logical. Should the names be abbreviated?
origin
an length-one object inheriting from class "POSIXt" or "Date".
...
arguments for other methods.

Value

  • weekdays and months return a character vector of names in the locale in use.

    quarters returns a character vector of "Q1" to "Q4".

    julian returns the number of days (possibly fractional) since the origin, with the origin as a "origin" attribute. All time calculations in Rare done ignoring leap-seconds.

See Also

DateTimeClasses, Date

Examples

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weekdays(.leap.seconds)
months(.leap.seconds)
quarters(.leap.seconds)

## Julian Day Number (JDN, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day)
## is the number of days since noon UTC on the first day of 4317 BC.
## in the proleptic Julian calendar.  To more recently, in
## 'Terrestrial Time' which differs from UTC by a few seconds
## See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Time
julian(Sys.Date(), -2440588) # from a day
floor(as.numeric(julian(Sys.time())) + 2440587.5) # from a date-time

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