[R] Working with date

[Jeff Newmiller]

If you don't have to be finicky about leading zeros, the easy way is:

as.character(asd,format="%d/%m/%Y")

?strptime

If you are going to be finicky, then

asdlt <- as.POSIXlt(asd)
with(asdlt,sprintf("%d/%d/%d",mday,mon+1,year+1900))

?as.POSIXlt
?sprintf
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Ron Michael <ron_michael70 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Let say I have a date variable:
>
>>  asd <- as.Date("2012-01-03")
>> asd
>[1] "2012-01-03"
>
>
>
>Now, I want to express this date like 3/1/2012.
>
>can somebody help me how to achieve that?
>
>Thanks,
>
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