Since you are loading lubridate it is enough to do Atest$ddate1 <- dmy(Atest$ddate)
On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2024-06-09 4:39 p.m., Val wrote: > > HI all, > > > > My > > I am trying to convert character date (mm/dd/yy) to YYYY-mm-dd date > > format in one of the columns of my data file. > > > > The first few lines of the data file looks like as follow > > > > head(Atest,10);dim(Atest) > > ddate > > 1 19/08/21 > > 2 30/04/18 > > Those aren't legal months in the first entry. Your format looks like it > should be "%d/%m/%y". > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
