[R] Converting the data in year month day hour and minutes to date

[Jeff Newmiller]

It is possible to squeeze a square peg into a round hole, but often you will not be satisfied with the result. Date is for... surprise, dates. You may want to use the chron package or the POSIXct type. The R Journal of June 2004 (Volume 4/1) "R Help Desk" column is recommended reading.
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Janesh Devkota <janesh.devkota at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi , 
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>I am trying to convert the date as factor to date using "as.date"
>function
>in R. I have the date in the following format
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>2008-01-01 02:30
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>I tried to use the following command : 
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>as.Date(mydata$Date, format="%y-%m-%d  ")
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>Can somebody help me with this ? I was able to convert the format with
>no
>hour but getting difficulty with hour included. 
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>Thank you. 
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>Janesh
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