[R] Need help on "date"

[Jeffrey Robert Spies]

And one using regular expressions:

x <- "2005-09-01"
pattern <- '([[:digit:]]{4})-([[:digit:]]{2})-([[:digit:]]{2})'
y <- sub(pattern, '\\1', x)
m <- sub(pattern, '\\2', x)
d <- sub(pattern, '\\3', x)

-- Jeff.

On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Arun Kumar Saha wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a variable 'x' like that:
>
>> x
> [1] "2005-09-01"
>
> Here, 2005 represents year, 09 month and 01 day.
>
> Now I want to create three variables naming: y, m, and d such that:
>
> y = 2005
> m = 09
> d = 01
>
> can anyone tell me how to do that?
>
> Regards,
>
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