Message-ID: <1EA3805F-E045-4D6B-B909-E71BD459CC30@dcn.davis.ca.us>
Date: 2021-03-24T23:41:49Z
From: Jeff Newmiller
Subject: Converting POSIXct format date to Character format
In-Reply-To: <1902293860.753927.1616613067660@mail2.virginmedia.com>
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On March 24, 2021 12:11:07 PM PDT, e-mail ma015k3113 via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
>I have a data frame "PLC" which has two variables Year_END_Date EPS
>
>YEAR_END_Date EPS
>2010-09-10 .10
>2009-08-10 .20
>
>When I tried to convert Year_END_Date to character format using
>
>select(PLC, format(Year_END_Date,format = "%B %d, %Y"), EPS) I get an
>error
>
>Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
>x Column `Year_END_Date` doesn't exist.
>
>I tried using
>
>PLC_1 <- select(PLC, as.character(YEAR_END_DATE), EPS)
>
>I get the following error
>
>Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
>x Columns `2010-09-30`, `2009-09-30`, `2008-09-30`, `2007-09-30`,
>`2006-09-30`, etc. don't exist.
>Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
>
>Can anyone please guide me what is happening and how can I resolve it?
>
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