Formatting parts of dates

Source: R/text_formatting.R

Format the month or day of week for a date.

format_month(d, abbr = TRUE)

format_wday(d, abbr = TRUE)

Arguments

d

A date

abbr

Abbreviate the name.

Value

The name of the month or day of the week.

Functions

  • format_month(): Format the month

  • format_wday(): Format the day of the week

Examples

format_month(as.Date("2001-02-25"), FALSE)
#> [1] "February"
format_month(Sys.Date(), TRUE)
#> [1] "Sep."

format_wday(as.Date("2001-02-25"), FALSE)
#> [1] Sunday
#> 7 Levels: Sunday < Monday < Tuesday < Wednesday < Thursday < ... < Saturday
format_wday(Sys.Date(), TRUE)
#> [1] "Mon."