...and switch the order, and use %y for 2-digit years. > On 17 Dec 2019, at 23:57 , Patrick (Malone Quantitative) > <mal...@malonequantitative.com> wrote: > > Try putting / instead of - in your format, to match the data. > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 5:52 PM Val <valkr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I wanted to to convert character date mm/dd/yy to YYYY-mm-dd >> The sample data and my attempt is shown below >> >> gs <-read.table(text="ID date >> A1 09/27/03 >> A2 05/27/16 >> A3 01/25/13 >> A4 09/27/19",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=F) >> >> Desired output >> ID date d1 >> A1 09/27/03 2003-09-27 >> A2 05/27/16 2016-05-27 >> A3 01/25/13 2012-04-25 >> A4 09/27/19 2019-09-27 >> >> I used this >> gs$d1 = as.Date(as.character(gs$date), format = "%Y-%m-%d") >> >> but I got NA's. >> >> How do I get my desired result? >> Thank you. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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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