[R] Compiling date

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Why not Format -> Cell in Excell?

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on 9/9/08 1:03 PM Henrique Dallazuanna said the following:
> Try this:
> 
> strptime(x, ifelse(nchar(x) == 8, '%d/%m/%y', '%d/%m/%Y'))
> 
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Megh Dal <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have following kind of dataset (all are dates) in my Excel sheet.
>>
>> 09/08/08
>> 09/05/08
>> 09/04/08
>> 09/02/08
>> 09/01/08
>> 29/08/2008
>> 28/08/2008
>> 27/08/2008
>> 26/08/2008
>> 25/08/2008
>> 22/08/2008
>> 21/08/2008
>> 20/08/2008
>> 18/08/2008
>> 14/08/2008
>> 13/08/2008
>> 08/12/08
>> 08/11/08
>> 08/08/08
>> 08/07/08
>>
>> However I want to use R to compile those data to make all dates in same
>> format. Can anyone please tell me any automated way for doing that?