Convert between Julian and Calendar Dates

Usage

julian(m, d, y, origin = c(month = 1, day = 1, year = 1970))
month.day.year(jul, origin = c(month = 1, day = 1, year = 1970))
leap.year(y)
day.of.week(month, day, year)

Arguments

m vector of month numbers.
d vector of day numbers.
y vector of years.
jul vector of Julian Dates, i.e., number of days since origin.
origin vector specifying the origin as month, day, and year. If missing, it defaults to options(chron.origin) if this is non-null, otherwise c(month = 1, day = 1, year = 1970).

Value

A vector of Julian dates (number of days since origin) when julian() is called, or a list with members month, day, year corresponding to the input Julian dates if month.day.year() is called. leap.year() returns a logical vector indicating whether the corresponding year is a leap year. day.of.week() returns a number between 0 and 6 to specify day of the weekל refers to Sunday.

These functions were taken from Becker, Chambers, and Wilks (1988), and were slightly modified to take chron and dates objects; some also take the extra argument origin.

See Also

chron, dates, times

Examples

julian(1, 1, 1970)
# [1] 0
unlist(month.day.year(0))
# month   day  year 
#     1     1  1970 


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