[R] Converting the data in year month day hour and minutes to date

[Uwe Ligges]

On 19.02.2013 18:47, Janesh Devkota wrote:
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> I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date" function
> in R. I have the date in the following format
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> 2008-01-01 02:30
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> I tried to use the following command :
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> as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")
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> Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with no
> hour but getting difficulty with hour included.

as.Date is about dates, but not hours. See ?strptime for a way to 
convert to POSIXlt / POSIXct representations.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


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