library(lubridate) a <- "20200403" lubridate::ymd(a) # 2020-04-03
HTH, Eric On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 5:57 PM Stephen P. Molnar <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > i have written an R script which allow me to plot the number of Covid-10 > cases reported by he state of Ohio. In that se t of data the date format > is in the form yyyy-mm-dd. > > My script uses: > > datebreaks <- seq(as.Date("2020-01-01"), as.Date("2020-08-10"), by="1 > week") > . > . > . > + scale_x_date(breaks=datebreaks) > + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle=30, hjust=1)) > > to plot the data. > > The COVID Tracking Project publishes considerably more data than does > the state of Ohio. However, The project supplies daily statistics using > the date format YYYYMMDD.I have done some searching, but I can't seem to > find a solution (that I can understand). > > How can I change the date forma from YYYYMMDD tp YYYY-MM-DD? > > Thanks is advanced. > > -- > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. > www.molecular-modeling.net > 614.312.7528 (c) > Skype: smolnar1 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.