How are date features utilized in Microsoft Azure Machine Studio

Question

I'm using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and was wondering if anyone had done some experiments on date time features. Doe sit automatically derive additional features like "day of week", "day of month", "hour of day" from them, or do I have to provide these?

I could not find any info in the official documentation (and a lack of a Microsoft support forum =)

Answer 1

Azure ML supports "execute-R" module which can be easily used to accomplish this in R - few examples below

x<-as.Date("12/3/2009", "%m/%d/%Y")

months.Date(x)

[1] "December"

weekdays.Date(x)

[1] "Thursday"

quarters(x)

[1] "Q4"