formatDate: Convert Dates to Character (Including Quarter Strings)

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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

strftime

Examples

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

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