Just a brief (and hopefully simple!) question;
I have a column of dates such as 08/14 and 08/15. However the column class is character, and I was wondering if it is possible (and if so how) to convert this into a date class? I've tried lots of different ways and it either does nothing, or returns N/A values for the whole column. Hopefully there should be a simple line of code to fix this that I haven't come across yet?
Any help much appreciated!!
One option is to create a day by pasteing and then use as.Date because date also needs day info
as.Date(paste0(c("08/14", "08/15"), "/01"), format = "%m/%y/%d")
#[1] "2014-08-01" "2015-08-01"
Or make use of as.yearmon from zoo
library(zoo)
as.Date(as.yearmon(c("08/14", "08/15"), "%m/%y"))
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