[R] expanding 1:12 months to Jan:Dec

[Gabor Grothendieck]

month.abb
month.name

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Liviu Andronic<landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users
> I would like to do some spreadsheet style expansion of dates. For
> example, I would need to obtain a vector of months. I approached in an
> obviously wrong way:
>> paste(01:12)
>  [1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10" "11" "12"
>> as.Date(paste(01:12), "%m")
>  [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
>
> to subsequently format(.., "%b"). Other than writing the months
> manually, could anyone suggest an easier way to obtain such a list?
> Liviu
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