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Determine the Month on a Specific Date in R Programming - months() Function

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months() function in R Language is used to determine the month on a specific date passed to it as argument.
Syntax: months(date, abbreviate) Parameters: date: Date to be checked abbreviate: Boolean value to abbreviate month
Example 1: Python3 1==
# R program to find the month 
# on a specific date

# Specifying the date
date <- as.POSIXlt("2020-06-23")
date

# Calling months() function
months(date)
Output:
[1] "2020-06-23 UTC"
[1] "June"
Example 2: Python3 1==
# R program to find the month 
# on a specific date

# Specifying the date
date <- as.POSIXlt("1994-01-17")
date

# Calling months() function
months(date, abbreviate = TRUE)
Output:
[1] "1994-01-17 UTC"
[1] "Jan"

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