[R] how to transform m/d/yyyy to yyyymmdd?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Assuming that there are no duplicate dates,
try this using zoo and chron:

> Lines <- "12/9/2007 0
+ 12/16/2007 1
+ 1/1/2008 2
+ 1/3/2008 3
+ 1/12/2008 4"
>
> library(zoo)
> library(chron)
> z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), FUN = chron)
> z # is automatically sorted by times
12/09/07 12/16/07 01/01/08 01/03/08 01/12/08
       0        1        2        3        4
> plot(z)

See R News 4/1 for more about dates and see the
3 vignettes (pdf documents) in the zoo package for
manipulating time series with zoo.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:16 PM, liujb<liujulia7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a set of data that has a Date column looks like this:
> 12/9/2007
> 12/16/2007
> 1/1/2008
> 1/3/2008
> 1/12/2008
> etc.
>
> I'd like the date to look something like the follow (so that I could sort by
> date easily).
> 20071209
> 20071216
> 20080101
> 20080103
> 20080112
>
> How to do it? Thank you very much
> Julia
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