Question

To get the current date, the _______ function will return a Date object which can be converted to a different class if necessary.

(a) Sys.Time

(b) Sys.Date

(c) Sys.DateTime

(d) DateTime

This question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

I want to ask this question from Dates and Times topic in chapter Control Structures, Functions, Scoping Rules, Loop Functions and Debugging of R Programming

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) Sys.Date

Explanation: The POSIXlt class stores date/time values as a list of components (hour, min, sec, mon, etc.) making it easy to extract these parts.