R: Calculate the Zodiac of a Date

Zodiac {DescTools} | R Documentation

## Calculate the Zodiac of a Date

### Description

Calculate the sign of zodiac of a date.

### Usage

    Zodiac(x, lang = c("engl", "deu"), stringsAsFactors = TRUE)

### Arguments

`x` | the date to be transformed.
`lang` | the language of the zodiac names, can be english (default) or german (`"deu"`).
`stringsAsFactors` | logical. If set to `TRUE` (default) the result will consist of a factor with zodiac signs as levels.

### Details

The really relevant things can sometimes hardly be found. You just discovered such a function... ;-)

### Value

character vector or factor with the zodiac.

### Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>, based on code from Markus Naepflin

### See Also

`Year` and other date functions

### Examples

    Zodiac(as.Date(c("1937-07-28", "1936-06-01", "1966-02-25",
                     "1964-11-17", "1972-04-25")), lang="deu")

    d <- sample(seq(as.Date("2015-01-01"), as.Date("2015-12-31"), 1), 120)
    z <- Zodiac(d)
    Desc(z)

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