[R] change date format

[MacQueen, Don]

I would use gsub() to change instances like 5.6.11 to 5/6/11.
Hopefully, both versions have month and day in the same order.

-Don
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On 3/13/14 6:57 AM, "catalin roibu" <catalinroibu at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear all!
>
>I have a new problem with the date format in a data frame. I have rainfall
>records extracted from an automatic meteo station. In the same data frame
>(with 10000 records) the date is in 2 formats like that:
>4/15/11 11:49 AM
>5.6.11 2:51 PM
>
>My question is how to modify date format for all records with this format
>type: 4/15/11 11:49 AM.
>
>Thank you!
>Best regards!
>
>Catalin
>
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