[R] Obtaining the day of any given date

[Chuck Cleland]

 > parsedDate <- strptime("03/19/06", "%m/%d/%y")
 > weekdays(parsedDate)
[1] "Sunday"

Fiona Hamilton wrote:
> R-Help
> 
> Please can you tell me if there is a function within R
> that will return the day of any given date?
> 
> Using 19 March 2006 as an example: 
> given 20060319 (or any other date format) will return
> the day Sunday.
> 
> Many thanks
> Fiona.
> 
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