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R function: ISOdate

ISOdate (as also ISOdatetime) is a wrapper for strptime.

The function returns a POSIXct object.

year   <- 1970
month  <-    8
day    <-   28
hour   <-   22
minute <-   23
second <-    0

bd <- ISOdate(year, month, day, hour, minute, second)
bd
# [1] "1970-08-28 22:23:00 GMT"

class(bd)
# [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

ISOdate(2015, 1:12, 4)
#  [1] "2015-01-04 12:00:00 GMT" "2015-02-04 12:00:00 GMT"
#  [3] "2015-03-04 12:00:00 GMT" "2015-04-04 12:00:00 GMT"
#  [5] "2015-05-04 12:00:00 GMT" "2015-06-04 12:00:00 GMT"
#  [7] "2015-07-04 12:00:00 GMT" "2015-08-04 12:00:00 GMT"
#  [9] "2015-09-04 12:00:00 GMT" "2015-10-04 12:00:00 GMT"
# [11] "2015-11-04 12:00:00 GMT" "2015-12-04 12:00:00 GMT"

Github repository about-r, path: /functions/ISOdate.R

R function: ISOdate

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