dtYear#

Purpose#

Extracts the year component from a date/time variable as a decimal number with century included.

Format#

year = dtYear(X[, column])#

Parameters:

X (TxK dataframe) – Data with metadata.
column (Scalar or string) – Optional, name or index of the date variable in X to get years from. Default = first column.

Returns:

year – The numeric year of the dates in the column specified by column.

Examples#

// Load data
fname = getGAUSSHome("examples/yellowstone.csv");
data = loadd(fname);

// Get years for date column
year = dtYear(data, "Date");

// Print first and last five dates
head(data[., "Date"]);
tail(data[., "Date"]);

// Print corresponding years
"Years:"
head(year);
tail(year);

The code above prints the following table: