[R] changing date format in a dataframe
Hi I have a data frame and i need to change the date format in it. my dataframe X Date 1 1/1/2009 2 2/1/2009 3 3/1/2009 I need to change it to 2009-01-01 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/changing-date-format-in-a-dataframe-tp4076411p4076411.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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] changing date format in a dataframe
Can you dput() your data frame? There are a different few time objects in R and details might depend which one you have. Though, if it's printing like that, I'd guess it's actually a string that you can convert to a Date using as.Date(, format = XXX) where you can work out the formatting from the documentation in ?strptime. Michael On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, arunkumar akpbond...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have a data frame and i need to change the date format in it. my dataframe X Date 1 1/1/2009 2 2/1/2009 3 3/1/2009 I need to change it to 2009-01-01 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/changing-date-format-in-a-dataframe-tp4076411p4076411.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
Re: [R] changing date format in a dataframe
Hi, If the dates are the same format and the same length you can try this : dates-c(1/1/2009,2/1/2009,3/1/2009) dates_new-as.Date(paste(substr(dates,1,3),substr(dates,7,8),sep=/),format=%d/%m/%y), you can change the format to %m/%d/%y Regards M Le 16/11/11 15:12, arunkumar a écrit : Hi I have a data frame and i need to change the date format in it. my dataframe X Date 1 1/1/2009 2 2/1/2009 3 3/1/2009 I need to change it to 2009-01-01 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/changing-date-format-in-a-dataframe-tp4076411p4076411.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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. -- Mohamed Lajnef,IE INSERM U955 eq 15# P?le de Psychiatrie# H?pital CHENEVIER # 40, rue Mesly # 94010 CRETEIL Cedex FRANCE # mohamed.laj...@inserm.fr # tel : 01 49 81 32 79 # Sec : 01 49 81 32 90 # fax : 01 49 81 30 99 # [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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] changing date format in a dataframe
Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 06:12 -0800, arunkumar a écrit : Hi I have a data frame and i need to change the date format in it. my dataframe X Date 1 1/1/2009 2 2/1/2009 3 3/1/2009 I need to change it to 2009-01-01 See ?as.Date. In your case, I think you should use df[[2]] - as.Date(df[[2]], format=%d/%m/%Y) This is assuming df is your dataframe, and that you're using the day/month/year syntax. To print it into another format, see ?format.Date Regards __ 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.
