[R] Changing string to date

[Uwe Ligges]

On 30.08.2013 11:59, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I have a string which I need to put in some legitimate date format.
>
> My string is: "MAY-14"
>
> And output format would be "05/01/2014", this should be of Date class,
> so that I can make some sensible calculation with it.
>
> I have tried this without any success:
>
>> as.Date("MAY-14", format = "%b-%y")
> [1] NA
>


You must have set an English locale (to recognize the word May as a 
month) and you have to add a day.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



>
> Can somebody help me how I can achieve that?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
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