[R] Converting POSIXct format date to Character format

[Bert Gunter]

What package is select() in?

Bert Gunter

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On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 4:42 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

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> On March 24, 2021 12:11:07 PM PDT, e-mail ma015k3113 via R-help <
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> >I have a data frame "PLC" which has two variables Year_END_Date   EPS
> >
> >YEAR_END_Date     EPS
> >2010-09-10        .10
> >2009-08-10        .20
> >
> >When I tried to convert Year_END_Date to character format using
> >
> >select(PLC, format(Year_END_Date,format = "%B %d, %Y"), EPS) I get an
> >error
> >
> >Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
> >x Column `Year_END_Date` doesn't exist.
> >
> >I tried using
> >
> >PLC_1 <- select(PLC, as.character(YEAR_END_DATE), EPS)
> >
> >I get the following error
> >
> >Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
> >x Columns `2010-09-30`, `2009-09-30`, `2008-09-30`, `2007-09-30`,
> >`2006-09-30`, etc. don't exist.
> >Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
> >
> >Can anyone please guide me what is happening and how can I resolve it?
> >
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