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

[Pete Brecknock]

jdbaba wrote
> Hi , 
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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. 
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> Thank you. 
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> Janesh
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how about 

as.POSIXlt("2008-01-01 02:30", format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") 

Pete



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