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R - Date Class

The Date class in R represents calendar dates as the number of days since 1970-01-01, with negative numbers for earlier dates. Dates are printed following the Gregorian calendar and fractional days are ignored. The Date class supports common operations like formatting, plotting on axes, generating sequences, and extracting components like months and weekdays. It is intended that dates be stored as integers but fractional days are possible via methods like mean().

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R - Date Class

The Date class in R represents calendar dates as the number of days since 1970-01-01, with negative numbers for earlier dates. Dates are printed following the Gregorian calendar and fractional days are ignored. The Date class supports common operations like formatting, plotting on axes, generating sequences, and extracting components like months and weekdays. It is intended that dates be stored as integers but fractional days are possible via methods like mean().

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Dates {base} R Documentation

Date Class

Description

Description of the class "Date" representing calendar dates.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Date'


summary(object, digits = 12, ...)

Arguments

object
An object summarized.

digits
Number of significant digits for the computations.

...
Further arguments to be passed from or to other methods.

Details

Dates are represented as the number of days since 1970-01-01, with negative values for earlier
dates. They are always printed following the rules of the current Gregorian calendar, even though
that calendar was not in use long ago (it was adopted in 1752 in Great Britain and its colonies).

It is intended that the date should be an integer, but this is not enforced in the internal
representation. Fractional days will be ignored when printing. It is possible to produce fractional
days via the mean method or by adding or subtracting (see Ops.Date).

The print methods respect options("max.print").

See Also

Sys.Date for the current date.

Ops.Date for operators on "Date" objects.

format.Date for conversion to and from character strings.

axis.Date and hist.Date for plotting.

weekdays for convenience extraction functions.

seq.Date, cut.Date, round.Date for utility operations.

DateTimeClasses for date-time classes.

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Examples

(today <- Sys.Date())


format(today, "%d %b %Y") # with month as a word
(tenweeks <- seq(today, length.out=10, by="1 week")) # next ten weeks
weekdays(today)
months(tenweeks)
as.Date(.leap.seconds)

[Package base version 3.4.1 Index]

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