Hello, Try the following.
idx <- grep("[[:alpha:]]", df$Date) Date <- as.Date(df$Date, "%m/%d/%y") Date[idx] <- as.Date(paste("01", df$Date[idx]), "%d %b-%y") Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 05-11-2013 16:00, Abraham Mathew escreveu:
Let's say I have the following data frame and the date column has two different ways in which date is presented. How can I use as.Date or the lubridate package to have one date structure for the entire colum df = data.frame(Date=c("5/1/13","8/1/13","9/1/13","Apr-10", "Apr-11","Apr-12","Apr-13")) It's "month/date/year" and "month-year". An alternative approach would be to perform some conditional statements where if the date is "Apr-11", then populate it with "04/01/2011". [[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.
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