[R] Convert character date time to R date-time variable.

[Ebert,Timothy Aaron]

Look at the lubridate package in R.
Regards,
Tim

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Colleagues,

I have a matrix of character data that represents date and time. The format of each element of the matrix is "2020-09-17_00:00:00"
How can I convert the elements into a valid R date-time constant?

Thank you,
John



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