Dear James,
Try this:
as.Date('20081121',"%Y%m%d")
[1] "2008-11-21"
HTH,
Jorge
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Smith, James (EWLS) <
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> G'day all,
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> I have many, very long time series' that come in to R in txt format and
> so the date column is structured:
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> 20081121
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> I would like them all to look like 2008-11-21 but cannot find any way to
> add these characters to all dates in one column in R.
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> I have way too many files to do it manually in a spreadsheet program
> like excel.
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> Any ideas please ?
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> thanks
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> James
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