[R] Changing string to date

[PIKAL Petr]

Hi

as.Date(paste("MAY-14","-01", sep=""), format = "%b-%y-%d")

Shall be OK. Change output format by ?format.

Regards
Petr


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Christofer Bogaso
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:00 PM
> To: r-help
> Subject: [R] Changing string to date
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> I have a string which I need to put in some legitimate date format.
> 
> My string is: "MAY-14"
> 
> And output format would be "05/01/2014", this should be of Date class,
> so that I can make some sensible calculation with it.
> 
> I have tried this without any success:
> 
> > as.Date("MAY-14", format = "%b-%y")
> [1] NA
> 
> 
> Can somebody help me how I can achieve that?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
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