[R] Compiling date

[stephen sefick]

this is day month year?
look at chron or maybe the easiest is to use excel to change the format

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse <el at lisse.na> wrote:
> Why not Format -> Cell in Excell?
>
> el
>
> 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?
>
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