[R] Replace / with - in date

Hi,every one .I have searched the solutions in the forum for replacing my date value which is in a data frame ,01/01/2000 to 01-01-2000 using replace function but got the following warning message x-2000/01/01 xd-as.data.frame(x) xd$x-replace(xd$x,xd$x==/,-) Warning message: In

Re: [R] Replace / with - in date

Thanks Mr.Winsemius for the proposed solution ,it worked fine.But when came to the entire data frame containing 40 rows ,i used the following code as proposed by you a$date1-gsub(/,-,a$date) got the following error: Error in `$-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, date1, value = character(0)) :

Re: [R] Replace / with - in date

This is my sample data 2000/01/01 2000/01/01 2000/02/01 2000/10/01 2000/19/01 2000/20/01 2000/21/01 2000/22/01 2000/23/01 2000/25/01 2000/26/01 2000/27/01 2000/28/01 2000/29/01 Tried using levels function but got the following error . Error in levels(a$date) - gsub(/, -, levels(a$date)) :

Re: [R] Replace / with - in date

x - c(2000/01/01, 2001/02/01,2000/03/01,2000/04/01,2000/05/01,2000/06/01,2000/07/01,2000/08/01,2000/09/01,2000/10/01) xd - as.data.frame(x) levels(xd$x) - gsub(/, -, levels(xd$x)) fix(xd) This works fine .but with one more variable say xsd in the data frame i'm getting the following

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