[R] How to use as.Date (or something else) with "31-Jul-2010 23:59:00"

[Clint Bowman]

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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have a huge file (not an R-file) in which the first column is a string
> with date, hour, minutes and seconds (For instance, "31-Jul-2010 23:59:00").
>
> I tried as.Date but the error msg was "Error in charToDate(x) :
>  character string is not in a standard unambiguous format".
>
> I have checked the help for the function as well as date but to no avail.
>
> How can that sort of string be transformed to something useful in R?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed
>
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