[R] Date parsing question

[Peter Dalgaard]

Ajay Shah <ajayshah at mayin.org> writes:

> How do I parse a date "yyyymmdd"? I tried asking chron(s, "ymd") but
> that didn't work. Would the date parsing routines of the Date class of
> 1.9 grok this?

Yes, trivially:

> as.Date("20040527",format="%Y%m%d")
[1] "2004-05-27"


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