Convert MM-DD-YYYY into MonthName-DD-YYYY

Question

How to convert 10-03-2021 into October-03-2021?

I have column in data frame in MM-DD-YYYY which needs to be converted into Month Name- Date- Year

example

10-03-2021 into October-03-2021

Do you mean `October-03-2021`?. Refer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7439977/changing-date-format-in-r — Nad Pat, Oct 01 '21 at 09:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '21 at 09:42

You have two parts: parsing the date, and then printing it with your format.

Parsing is quite easy with the lubridate package:

> library(lubridate)
> dates <- mdy(c('10-03-2021', '01-31-1995'))
> dates
[1] "2021-10-03" "1995-01-31"

For printing, you can then use the format() function:

> format(dates, '%B-%d-%Y')
[1] "October-03-2021" "January-31-1995"

%B is the full name of the month, %d the day and %Y the year (with all 4 digits)

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