[R] convert date to a factor

[R. Michael Weylandt]

d$date <- factor(d$date)

Best,
Michael

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Yolande Tra <yolande.tra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to convert date as a factor to represent time in a repeated
> measure situation in the following code. How would I do that?
>>  d <- read.csv(file.path(dataDir,"data.csv"), as.is=T,stringsAsFactors =
> FALSE)
>> d[1:2,]
>         id     date         a        b      c         y
> 1       1 8/6/2008     Red    15     B          22
> 2       1 8/6/2008   Green   15     B          22
> Thank you,
> Y
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