[R] Month names

[Prof Brian Ripley]

format(ISOdate(2000, 1:12, 1), "%B")

On Mon, 24 May 2004, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:

> This is how I get the month names from within R:
> 
> > mon <- rep(strptime("01/01/1952", format = "%d/%m/%Y"), 12)
> > mon$mon <- mon$mon + 0:11
> > mnam <- months(mon, abbreviate = F)
> > mnam
>  [1] "januar"    "februar"   "marts"     "april"     "maj"       "juni"
> "juli"      "august"    "september"
> [10] "oktober"   "november"  "december" 
> 
> Surely someone on the list can beat that in elegance?

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