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formatDate

Convert Dates to Character (Including Quarter Strings)

Description

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

Usage

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

Value

a character vector representing the input date(s) x following the format specification.

See Also

Examples

formatDate(Sys.Date(), "%G/%OQ/%q")
surveillance

Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Monitoring of Epidemic Phenomena

v1.19.1
GPL-2
Authors
Michael H<f6>hle [aut, ths] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0423-6702>), Sebastian Meyer [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-9449>), Michaela Paul [aut], Leonhard Held [ctb, ths], Howard Burkom [ctb], Thais Correa [ctb], Mathias Hofmann [ctb], Christian Lang [ctb], Juliane Manitz [ctb], Andrea Riebler [ctb], Daniel Saban<e9>s Bov<e9> [ctb], Ma<eb>lle Salmon [ctb], Dirk Schumacher [ctb], Stefan Steiner [ctb], Mikko Virtanen [ctb], Wei Wei [ctb], Valentin Wimmer [ctb], R Core Team [ctb] (A few code segments are modified versions of code from base R)
Initial release
2021-03-30

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