[R] Convert date column with two different structures

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try the following.


idx <- grep("[[:alpha:]]", df$Date)

Date <- as.Date(df$Date, "%m/%d/%y")
Date[idx] <- as.Date(paste("01", df$Date[idx]), "%d %b-%y")


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 05-11-2013 16:00, Abraham Mathew escreveu:
> Let's say I have the following data frame and the date column has two
> different ways in which date is presented. How can I use as.Date or the
> lubridate package to have one date structure for the entire colum
>
> df = data.frame(Date=c("5/1/13","8/1/13","9/1/13","Apr-10",
>
>                "Apr-11","Apr-12","Apr-13"))
> It's "month/date/year" and "month-year".
>
> An alternative approach would be to perform some conditional statements
> where if the date is "Apr-11", then populate it with "04/01/2011".
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