[R] changing the Date format.

[Patrick Connolly]

On Wed, 26-Aug-2009 at 03:48AM -0700, rajclinasia wrote:

|> 
|> Hi everyone,
|> 
|> i have a data frame called 'sample'. in that 'sample' data frame variable
|> called 'starts' is there like this
|> 
|> starts
|> 37987
|> 37988
|> 37989
|> 37990 
|> 37991
|> 
|> now i want change that variable into 'yyyy-mm-dd' format. can any body help
|> in this aspect.

Check out the as.Date function.
?as.Date

HTH

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