Format a date.

Prints a date into a pretty format.

Usage

formatDate(
  d,
  m,
  y,
  date.format = c("MM.DD.YYYY", "MMM.DD.YYYY", "DD.MM.YYYY", "DD.MMM.YYYY", "YYYY.MM.DD",
    "YYYY.MMM.DD"),
  sep = "/"
)

Arguments

d

day of the month (1-31)

m

month of the year (1-12)

y

year of date

date.format

how to format the date. Defaults to "month/day/year".

sep

string used to separate d, m, and y. Defaults to "/".

Value

A character string of a formatted date.

Details

Given the day, month, and year of a date, returns the date in a specific format. The order and separating string can be modified using date.format and sep respectively. Take note the order of the arguments: day, month, and year. Only accepts "MM.DD.YYYY", "MMM.DD.YYYY", "DD.MM.YYYY", "DD.MMM.YYYY", "YYYY.MM.DD", "YYYY.MMM.DD".

See also

Other date formatting functions: chr_to_date(), cleanDate(), getFormat(), numericToDate()

Author

Samuel Leung, Derek Chiu

Examples

formatDate(8, 7, 2011)
#> [1] "07/08/2011"
formatDate(8, 7, 2011, date.format = "YYYY.MM.DD")
#> [1] "2011/07/08"
formatDate(8, 7, 2011, date.format = "DD.MM.YYYY", sep = "-")
#> [1] "08-07-2011"
formatDate(10, 1, 2015, date.format = "MMM.DD.YYYY", sep = "-")
#> [1] "Jan-10-2015"