Year

We can also able to format the year in different forms. %y, %Y, and %C are the few format specifiers that return the year without century, a year with century, and century of the given date respectively.

Example:

Output

[1] "22"
[1] "2022"
[1] "20"

In this article, we will be looking at the approaches to using the date formats in the R programming language,

R programming language provides several functions that deal with date and time. These functions are used to format and convert the date from one form to another form. R provides a format function that accepts the date objects and also a format parameter that allows us to specify the format of the date we needed. R provides various format specifiers which are mentioned below in Table-

Note:To get the Today date, R provides a method called sys.Date() which returns the today date.