stri_datetime_symbols {stringi}

List Localizable Date-Time Formatting Data

Description

Returns a list of all localizable date-time formatting data, including month and weekday names, localized AM/PM strings, etc.

Usage

stri_datetime_symbols(locale = NULL, context = "standalone", width = "wide")

Arguments

locale

NULL or '' for default locale, or a single string with locale identifier

context

single string; one of: 'format', 'standalone'

width

single string; one of: 'abbreviated', 'wide', 'narrow'

Details

context stands for a selector for date formatting context and width - for date formatting width.

Value

Returns a list with the following named components:

1. Month - month names,

2. Weekday - weekday names,

3. Quarter - quarter names,

4. AmPm - AM/PM names,

5. Era - era names.

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

References

Calendar - ICU User Guide, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/datetime/calendar/

DateFormatSymbols class – ICU API Documentation, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/apidoc/dev/icu4c/classicu_1_1DateFormatSymbols.html

Formatting Dates and Times – ICU User Guide, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/format_parse/datetime/

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other datetime: stri_datetime_add(), stri_datetime_create(), stri_datetime_fields(), stri_datetime_format(), stri_datetime_fstr(), stri_datetime_now(), stri_timezone_get(), stri_timezone_info(), stri_timezone_list()

Examples

stri_datetime_symbols() # uses the Gregorian calendar in most locales
stri_datetime_symbols('@calendar=hebrew')
stri_datetime_symbols('he_IL@calendar=hebrew')
stri_datetime_symbols('@calendar=islamic')
stri_datetime_symbols('@calendar=persian')
stri_datetime_symbols('@calendar=indian')
stri_datetime_symbols('@calendar=coptic')
stri_datetime_symbols('@calendar=japanese')

stri_datetime_symbols('ja_JP_TRADITIONAL') # uses the Japanese calendar by default
stri_datetime_symbols('th_TH_TRADITIONAL') # uses the Buddhist calendar

stri_datetime_symbols('pl_PL', context='format')
stri_datetime_symbols('pl_PL', context='standalone')

stri_datetime_symbols(width='wide')
stri_datetime_symbols(width='abbreviated')
stri_datetime_symbols(width='narrow')