[R] Format

[Eric Berger]

Since you are loading lubridate it is enough to do

Atest$ddate1 <- dmy(Atest$ddate)



On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024-06-09 4:39 p.m., Val wrote:
> > HI all,
> >
> > My
> > I am trying to convert character date (mm/dd/yy)  to YYYY-mm-dd date
> > format in one of the columns of my data file.
> >
> > The first few lines of the data file looks like as follow
> >
> >   head(Atest,10);dim(Atest)
> >        ddate
> > 1  19/08/21
> > 2  30/04/18
>
> Those aren't legal months in the first entry.  Your format looks like it
> should be "%d/%m/%y".
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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