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getFormats {anytime} | R Documentation

## Functions to retrieve, set or remove formats used for parsing dates.

### Description

The time and date parsing and conversion relies on trying a (given and fixed) number of timeformats. The format used is the one employed by the underlying implementation of the Boost date_time library.

### Usage

    getFormats()

    addFormats(fmt)

    removeFormats(fmt)

### Arguments

`fmt` | A vector of character values in the form understood by Boost date_time

### Value

Nothing in the case of `addFormats`; a character vector of formats in the case of `getFormats`

### Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

### See Also

`anytime-package` and references therein

### Examples

      getFormats()
      addFormats(c("%d %b %y",      # two-digit date [not recommended], textual month
                   "%a %b %d %Y"))  # weekday weeknumber four-digit year
      removeFormats("%d %b %y")     # remove first

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