The format and as.character methods return a character vector The format and as.character methods ignore any Character strings are processedĪs far as necessary for the format specified: any trailing charactersĪs.Date will accept numeric data (the number of days since an Time zone, default UTC.) Also objects of class 'date' (from The time after midnight in the representation of the time in specified (The last is converted to days by ignoring The as.Date methods accept character strings, factors, logical Locale-specific conversions to and from character strings are used The usual vector re-cycling rules are applied to x andįormat so the answer will be of length that of the longer of the Including format for as.character and as.Date (instead of signalling an error) if the format guessing does not succeed.Ī Date object, or something which can be coerced byįurther arguments to be passed from or to other methods,
Strings to try if format is not specified. Strptime() whose help page describes available TryFormats one by one on the first non- NA element, and
) # S3 method for class 'Date' as.character ( x. ) # S3 method for class 'Date' format ( x. ) # S3 method for class 'POSIXct' as.Date ( x, tz = 'UTC'. ) # S3 method for class 'numeric' as.Date ( x, origin.
) # S3 method for class 'character' as.Date ( x, format, tryFormats = c ( '%Y-%m-%d', '%Y/%m/%d' ), optional = FALSE.
