Re: [R] Converting date format
The following functions may help; strptime() ISOdate() Muhammad Hosack, Michael wrote: R community: Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from %m/%d/%Y to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have tried functions for changing the formatting and removing the unnecessary digits without success. Mike __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
[R] Converting date format
R community: Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from %m/%d/%Y to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have tried functions for changing the formatting and removing the unnecessary digits without success. Mike __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
Re: [R] Converting date format
If x is your vector of character date variables:
orig.date - as.Date(x, format=c(%m/%d/%Y))
new.date - format(x, format=c(%m/%d/%y))
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R community:
Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from
%m/%d/%Y to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have
tried functions for changing the formatting and removing the unnecessary
digits without success.
Mike
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Re: [R] Converting date format
try this:
x - c('1/1/1970','12/13/2010', '2/3/2001')
gsub((\\d+/\\d+/)\\d\\d(\\d\\d file://d+///d+/)//d//d(//d//d),
\\1\\2file://0.0.0.1//2,
x)
[1] 1/1/70 12/13/10 2/3/01
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Hosack, Michael mhos...@state.pa.uswrote:
R community:
Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from %m/%d/%Y
to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have tried functions
for changing the formatting and removing the unnecessary digits without
success.
Mike
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