[R] Date parsing question

[tobias.verbeke@bivv.be]

r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote on 27/05/2004 11:29:11:

> How do I parse a date "yyyymmdd"? I tried asking chron(s, "ymd") but
> that didn't work. Would the date parsing routines of the Date class of
> 1.9 grok this?

> a <- "20030527"
> as.Date(a, "%Y%m%d")
[1] "2003-05-27"

HTH,
Tobias

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