Re: [R] How to Transform a Factor Variable into a Date

2017-06-19 Thread David L Carlson
The R list does not recognize .csv files so your attachment got stripped. It is picky that way. Tacking .txt to the end might trick it into preserving the attachment. Dataset <- read.table() created a data.frame called Dataset so the second command was redundant. Probably better would be read.

Re: [R] How to Transform a Factor Variable into a Date

2017-06-19 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Another way of getting dates, of class 'Date', is to paste a day "01" into what the op has. To the op: 1) Your attachment didn't come through, R-Help doesn't accept the extension .csv, use .txt 2) When you read your data in using function read.csv the result already is a data.frame so

Re: [R] How to Transform a Factor Variable into a Date

2017-06-19 Thread Christopher W Ryan
A couple thoughts: 1. converting factors into dates often requires that they be converted to character first. 2. you don't really have dates; you have just months and years 3. therefore perhaps the as.yearmon() function in the zoo package could help library(zoo) my.factor <- factor("Feb 2017")