It is possible to squeeze a square peg into a round hole, but often you will not be satisfied with the result. Date is for... surprise, dates. You may want to use the chron package or the POSIXct type. The R Journal of June 2004 (Volume 4/1) "R Help Desk" column is recommended reading. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Janesh Devkota <janesh.devk...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 > > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.