formatDate function

Convert Dates to Character (Including Quarter Strings)

An extension of format.Date with additional formatting strings for quarters. Used by linelist2sts.

formatDate(x, format)

Arguments

• x: a "Date" object.

• format: a character string, see strftime for possible specifications. Further to these base formats, formatDate

  implements:

  • "%Q": the quarter as a numeric
  • "%OQ": the quarter as a roman numeral
  • "%q": the day within the quarter

Returns

a character vector representing the input date(s) x

following the format specification.

See Also

strftime

Examples

formatDate(as.Date("2021-10-13"), "%G/%OQ/%q")