[R] Formatting YYYY-MM after reading text file [RESOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, MacQueen, Don wrote:

> I would have just assigned them all to the first day of the month, using
>  as.Date( paste0(allchem$sampdate,'-01') )
> (or maybe the middle of the month represented by the 15th)
> and then had a variable that was of the Date class in the base R (with
> which I am familiar, no small consideration).

Don,

   The original data had the day of the month, but that's not important. I
suppose I could leave it in and still analyze and plot by month.

> Depending on what needs to be done with them -- plotting with a date axis?
> -- calculating elapsed time between sampling events? -- I suppose one or
> the other of 'yearmon' or 'Date' might be more convenient.

   Simple is better.

Thanks,

Rich