gdata (version 2.7.1)

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

## --- 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)