[R] Date formats

[Miguel Manese]

Hi Walt,

as.Date("01OCT1928", "%d%b%Y") works for me. See also ?strftime

Regards,

Jon


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Data Analytics Corp.
<walt at dataanalyticscorp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I imported an excel table (using read.csv) of Dow Jones monthly average
> closings where the first variable is a date as a character string such as
> "01OCT1928".  How do I convert this to a date variable so I can plot monthly
> average closings against date using ggplot2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
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