[R] Failed to convert text to date

[Iris Simmons]

If I remember correctly, %y is the last 2 digits of the year, so 90 would
be 1990 and 15 would be 2015. I think you meant %Y

I think you can find this in ?Date, or maybe ?strptime, I can't remember
exactly.

On Sat, May 31, 2025, 12:38 Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to convert a date-like string to date as below
>
> as.Date("202012", format = "%y%m")
>
> This gives NA
>
> Could you please help why I am getting NA value?
>
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