[R] Date as Integer

[Jeff Newmiller]

Use mutate to change the date before you use group_by.

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On August 22, 2015 12:43:05 AM PDT, Shivi82 <shivibhatia at ymail.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am using dplyr package and need to find total bills booked grouped on
>a
>date level however my date is integer. 
>In the code below i was trying to change date format from integer.
>However
>it is throwing an error:
>
>"no applicable method for 'group_by_' applied to an object of class
>"c('integer', 'numeric')"
>
>ak%>%
>  group_by(as.Date(pickdate),"%y%m%d")%>%
>  summarise(Total=count(waybill))
>
>Do i need to create a new var first changing the date and then group it
>or
>as.Date will work as i added in dplyr.
>
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