Good morning,

try this:
#your date format
datum<-c("100907","101008","101109")
#convert it (works with and without as.Date)
datum<-as.Date(strptime(datum,("%y%m%d")))
plot(datum,5:7)

I hope it works for you

Hajo

Am 09.11.2010 06:37, schrieb sachinthaka.abeyward...@allianz.com.au:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a date in the format of yymmdd (without any of the backslashes, eg.
> 100731). How do I convert this into a Rdate and plot it? I don't want the
> number of days from 1970's showing up as my date (Its the date I require).
>
> Thanks,
> Sachin
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