Converting the data in year month day hour and minutes to date

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Hi ,

I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date" function
in R. I have the date in the following format

2008-01-01 02:30

I tried to use the following command :

as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")

Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with no
hour but getting difficulty with hour included.
as.Date is about dates, but not hours. See ?strptime for a way to 
convert to POSIXlt / POSIXct representations.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

Thank you.

Janesh

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jdbaba wrote
Hi , 

I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date" function
in R. I have the date in the following format

2008-01-01 02:30

I tried to use the following command : 

as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")

Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with no
hour but getting difficulty with hour included. 

Thank you. 

Janesh

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how about 

as.POSIXlt("2008-01-01 02:30", format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") 

Pete

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Hello,

Try the following.

x <- "2008-01-01 02:30"
as.POSIXct(x, format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 19-02-2013 17:47, Janesh Devkota escreveu:
Hi ,

I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date" function
in R. I have the date in the following format

2008-01-01 02:30

I tried to use the following command :

as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")

Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with no
hour but getting difficulty with hour included.

Thank you.

Janesh

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It is possible to squeeze a square peg into a round hole, but often you will not be satisfied with the result. Date is for... surprise, dates. You may want to use the chron package or the POSIXct type. The R Journal of June 2004 (Volume 4/1) "R Help Desk" column is recommended reading.
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Hi , 

I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date"
function
in R. I have the date in the following format

2008-01-01 02:30

I tried to use the following command : 

as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")

Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with
no
hour but getting difficulty with hour included. 

Thank you. 

Janesh

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You need to convert the factor to character.

as.Date( as.character(mydata$Date), "%Y-%m-%d")

should do it.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
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date

Hi ,

I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date"
function
in R. I have the date in the following format

2008-01-01 02:30

I tried to use the following command :

as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")

Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with no
hour but getting difficulty with hour included.

Thank you.

Janesh

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