R: Get date/time parts from date and time objects

getYear {gdata} | R Documentation

## 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

### Author(s)

Gregor Gorjanc

### 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)

[Package gdata version 2.18.0 Index]