It should be strptime for character vectors.
strptime("Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM",format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p”)
> On 12 Sep 2016, at 08:57, Chris Evans <chrishold at psyctc.org> wrote:
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>> strftime("Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM",format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p")
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