Hello, I have another question....
I have a data frame that looks like this: a b 2007-03-31 "20070514" "20070410" 2007-06-30 "20070814" "20070709" 2007-09-30 "20071115" "20071009" 2007-12-31 "20080213" "20080109" 2008-03-31 "20080514" "20080407" 2008-06-30 "20080814" "--" 2008-09-30 "20081114" "20081007" 2008-12-31 "20090217" "20090112" 2009-03-31 "--" "20090407" 2009-06-30 "20090817" "20090708" 2009-09-30 "20091113" "--" 2009-12-31 "20100212" "20100111" 2010-03-31 "20100517" "20100412" 2010-06-30 "20100816" "20100712" 2010-09-30 "20101112" "20101007" 2010-12-31 "20110214" "20110110" 2011-03-31 "20110513" "20110411" 2011-06-30 "20110815" "20110711" 2011-09-30 "20111115" "20111011" (actually it has about 10,00 columns) I'd like all of the strings to be formatted like 2011-11-15, 2011-10-11, etc. as a data frame of the same dimensions and all of the and dimnames intact. They don't have to be of date format. "--" can be NA or left the same. It does have to be fast though... Thanks! ben [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.