5.3 Extract Date from Date Time Object
20220524 To extract just the date from a date time
object we can use base::date(). We’ll use lubridate::now() to
generate a date time object, svaed into the variable timestamp
, to
illustrate base::date(). The function can also be applied to a
vector (column) of data.
<- now()
timestamp
<- date(timestamp)
day
day
## [1] "2023-08-13"
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