Hi as.Date(paste("MAY-14","-01", sep=""), format = "%b-%y-%d")
Shall be OK. Change output format by ?format. Regards Petr > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Christofer Bogaso > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:00 PM > To: r-help > Subject: [R] Changing string to date > > Hello again, > > I have a string which I need to put in some legitimate date format. > > My string is: "MAY-14" > > And output format would be "05/01/2014", this should be of Date class, > so that I can make some sensible calculation with it. > > I have tried this without any success: > > > as.Date("MAY-14", format = "%b-%y") > [1] NA > > > Can somebody help me how I can achieve that? > > Thanks and regards, > > ______________________________________________ > 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.