JAN-15" to a POSIxct
as.POSIXct(c("5-JAN-15"),tz="GMT")
I am getting this error
Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz = tz) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
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without telling it, R has no way of knowing whether 5 or 15 is the year/month. – MichaelChirico Aug 03 '15 at 19:45
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You need to add `format="%d-%b-%y"` to `as.POSIXct`. – MichaelChirico Aug 03 '15 at 19:46
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Which you could have seen quite quickly from [googling your error](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#es_th=1&q=character%20string%20is%20not%20in%20a%20standard%20unambiguous%20format) – MichaelChirico Aug 03 '15 at 19:47
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The format must be specified.
as.POSIXct("5-JAN-15", format="%d-%h-%y", tz="GMT")
#[1] "2015-01-05 GMT"
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