[R] Clarification about data/weekday conversion

[Jim Lemon]

Hi tk.tk.,
Once you have the date as a Date object, leave it that way for your
time series analysis. If you want to get labels (as opposed to date
values) in the format you request, do this:

date1<-"3/6/2015"
Date1<-as.Date(date1,"%d/%m/%Y")
[1] "2015-06-03"
# get a character date in the <long weekday>-<numeric month>-<long year> format
format(Date1,"%A-%m-%Y")
[1] "Wed-06-2015"

Jim


On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, t.k. t.k. <tk9830 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> This is a general question.
> I have imported a "Dates" variable as character. I used the "as.Date"
> command and convert it to Date,format..
>
> I want to change the display of the date to weekday (e.g., I want my time
> series to be instead of 15-04-2010 as Friday-04-2010). I used the "format"
> command but the variable reverts back to character. Is there a way to
> change the day to weekday and my variable remain a "Date,format..."
> variable?
>
> these are the two lines I used as code
>
> Hpc$Date1<- as.Date(Hpc$Date, "%d/%m/%Y")
>
> Hpc$Date1<-format(Hpc$Date1, "%a %b %d %Y")
>
> thanks in advance
>
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