chron (version 2.3-9)

days: Return Various Periods from a Chron or Dates Object

Description

Given a chron or dates object, extract the year, quarter, month, day (within the month) or weekday (days within the week) of the date it represents.

Usage

days(x)
## S3 method for class 'default':
weekdays(x, abbreviate = TRUE)
## S3 method for class 'default':
months(x, abbreviate = TRUE)
## S3 method for class 'default':
quarters(x, abbreviate = TRUE)
years(x)

Arguments

x

a dates object.

abbreviate

should abbreviated names be returned? Default is TRUE.

Value

• an ordered factor corresponding to days, weekdays, months, quarters, or years of x for the respective function.

See Also

is.weekend, is.holiday

Examples

dts <- dates("07/01/78") + trunc(50 * rnorm(30))
plot(weekdays(dts))
plot(months(dts))