[R] timeDate with month designated by three letters.

[Clint Bowman]

> strptime("04-MAY-11 1428",format="%d-%b-%y %H%M")
[1] "2011-05-04 14:28:00"


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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, mdkzone at aol.com wrote:

> Dear R Experts:
>
>
>   I am trying to convert a date and time character field to timeDate where the month is presented as three letters, such as "JUN" for June, etc.
>
>
> This is an example of the full character field:
>
>
> "04-MAY-11 1428"
> What is the proper format syntax?
>
>
> I've tried
>
> timeDate("04-MAY-11 1428",format="%d-%m-%y %H%M")
> but only get
>
> GMT
> [1] [NA]
> If I change the month to a number as below, then it works, but that would require recoding of the data field.
>
>
>
> timeDate("04-05-11 1428",format="%d-%m-%y %H%M")
>
> gives
>
> GMT
> [1] [2011-05-04 14:28:00]
> which is correct.  How do I get R to recognize the month as a 3 letter designator.
>
>
> Any recommendations you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Michael
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