[R] as>date parsing

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this.  sprintf formats it with a leading 0 if necessary and then
as.Date processes that:

as.Date(sprintf("%06d", c(280210, 10210)), "%d%m%y")

Note Feb only has 28 days this year so I changed the example.

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM, ManInMoon <xmoon2000 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I have text date colum with dates such at 290210 which I can parse with
> %d%m%y but I also have date without leading zeo i.e. 10210 (Ist Feb 2010)
> which cause any NA.
>
> How can I parse the second one?
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