Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020203020957.00ad2410@pop.ozemail.com.au>
Date: 2002-02-02T15:50:57Z
From: John Field
Subject: chron problem: extracting days and years
Hello r-help,
I'm trying to split a character vector of dates of the form "dd-mmm-yy"
into component days, months and years. But
> library(chron)
> testdate<-as.POSIXlt(strptime("17-Sep-98","%d-%b-%y"))
> testdate
[1] "1998-09-17"
> months(testdate)
[1] "September" # which is fine, but for days and years I get
> days(testdate)
NULL
> years(testdate)
NULL
>
According to "?days" these should work. What am I doing wrong? Is there
an easier way to achieve what I want?
(I'm running R1.3.0 under Win98).
Many thanks,
John Field
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