Convert R character to date

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Converting year and month to a date in R?

I have the following string:

date <- "Feb 1964"

I am trying to convert this to a date, using the following code:

new.date <- as.Date(date, format="%b %Y")

NA is returned here. Can someone kindly explain how I can achieve this, and explain what I am doing wrong ..

Many thanks in advance

This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7480499/unable-to-format-months-with-as-date — Mark Miller, Nov 20 '12 at 10:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '12 at 11:03

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I think this might do what you want.

date <- "Feb 1964"
date <- "1 Feb 1964"
new.date <- as.Date(date, format="%d %b %Y")
new.date

answered Nov 20 '12 at 11:03

Mark Miller

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