[R] 19900501 into 1990-05-01

[Remko Duursma]

Something like:

format(as.Date("20090501",format="%Y%m%d"), "%Y %m %d")


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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:04 AM, frenchcr <frenchcr at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> I have a column of dates in this format.. 19900501
>
> I want to change
> 19900501 into 1990 05 01
> then append a new column on the end (right hand side of spreadsheet)
>
> :confused:
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