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

[John Kane]

You need to convert the factor to character.

as.Date( as.character(mydata$Date), "%Y-%m-%d")

should do it.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: janesh.devkota at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:47:04 -0600
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> Subject: [R] Converting the data in year month day hour and minutes to
> date
> 
> Hi ,
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 2008-01-01 02:30
> 
> 
> 
> I tried to use the following command :
> 
> as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")
> 
> 
> 
> Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with no
> hour but getting difficulty with hour included.
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> Janesh
> 
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