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st: RE: Truncating a date


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Truncating a date
Date   Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:41:38 -0000

You could do that, but you don't need to. Use
the -format()- suboption of -xlabel()- or -ylabel()-. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Robin Newberry
 
> I want to take a date (in DD/MM/YYYY format) and shorten it to just 
> MM/YY for graphing purposes. Can I just create a new date variable 
> and format it to just MM/YY (using "format %dD/Y")?

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