changing date format in a dataframe

Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 ? 06:12 -0800, arunkumar1111 a ?crit :

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

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

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


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