date_format: Formatting: date and date-time

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Formatting: date and date-time

Description

date_format() formats a date (Date) or date-time (POSIXct/POSIXlt) using a format string.

There are separate help pages for formatting dates and date-times:

• dates (Date)

• date-times (POSIXct/POSIXlt)

Usage

date_format(x, ...)

Arguments

x	⁠[Date / POSIXct / POSIXlt]⁠ A date or date-time vector.
...	These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

Value

A character vector of the formatted input.

Examples

# See method specific documentation for more examples

x <- as.Date("2019-01-01")
date_format(x, format = "year: %Y, month: %m, day: %d")

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