String output from week days and month. about lubridate HOT 7 CLOSED

like month(x, string =T) = "January" ?

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Should the settors work the same way?
wday(x) <- "Monday"

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Yeah, although label might be a better argument name, and maybe we need abbr as well. month(ymd(080101) + months(1:12), label = T, abbr = T) should return ordered(1:12, labels = c("Jan", "Feb", ... "Dec"))

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I wrote it for the accessors but not the settors. So that:

month(ymd(080101) + months(1:12), label = T, abbr = T) returns

[1] "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct" "Nov" "Dec"
"Jan"

and month(ymd(080101) + months(0:11), label = T, abbr = T) returns

[1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct" "Nov" "Dec"

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so..

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We could work the same way for gettors, i.e. month(x, label = T) <- "January", but it might get more complicated with internationalsation. What happens if the French user says month(x, label = T) <- "Janvier" ?

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Well right now it says Error in month<-(*tmp*, label = T, value = 1) :
unused argument(s) (label = T)

Should they have to specify label = T to input "January" ?

I'm not sure how we could anticipate all of the different words for January. We could just look at the first three letters, but that might not always work.

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