[R] extracting months from a data

[KMNanus]

I have a series of dates in  format 3-Oct, 10-Oct, 20-Oct, etc.

I want to create a variable of just the month.  If I convert the date to a character string, substr is ineffective because some of the dates have 5 characters (3-Oct) and some have 6 (10-Oct).

Is there a date function that accomplishes this easily?

Ken
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