HI,
May be this helps:
MyString1 <- c("Sun Sep 01 00:20:00 EDT 2013", "Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2013")
as.POSIXct(gsub("EDT|EST","",MyString1), format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
#[1] "2013-09-01 00:20:00 EDT" "2013-12-01 00:00:00 EST"
as.Date(gsub("EDT|EST","",MyString1), format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
#[1] "2013-09-01" "2013-12-01"
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com>
To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
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Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2013 11:34 AM
Subject: [R] Converting string to date
Hi,
I want to convert following string to a Date format (mm/dd/yyyy):
MyString <- c("Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013", "Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2013")
Can somebody point me if it is possible to do that?
Thank you.
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