Thanks Mr.Winsemius for the proposed solution ,it worked fine.But when came to the entire data frame containing 400000 rows ,i used the following code as proposed by you
a$date1<-gsub("/","-",a$date) got the following error: Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "date1", value = character(0)) : replacement has 0 rows, data has 441906 Please provide solution with the problem. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Replace-with-in-date-tp1911391p1914541.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.