Retrieve System Date and Time in R

R Programming: Basic Exercise-27 with Solution

Write a R program to create the system's idea of the current date with and without time.

Sample Solution :

R Programming Code :

# Print a message indicating the system's idea of the current date with and without time
print("System's idea of the current date with and without time:")

# Print the current date (without time) according to the system
print(Sys.Date())

# Print the current date and time according to the system
print(Sys.time())

Output:

[1] "System's idea of the current date with and without time:"
[1] "2018-11-13"
[1] "2018-11-13 12:33:23 UTC"                         

Explanation:

• Prints a descriptive message:
• print("System's idea of the current date with and without time:")
• Displays a string indicating that the following output will show the current date and time.
• Prints the current date:
• print(Sys.Date())
• Sys.Date() retrieves and prints the current system date in the format "YYYY-MM-DD".
• Prints the current date and time:
• print(Sys.time())
• Sys.time() retrieves and prints the current system date and time, including hours, minutes, and seconds, in the format "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM

R Programming Code Editor:

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