[R] Convert time format to character

[Jeff Newmiller]

I think the OP is being vague by saying "time format" (wouldn't a small reproducible example from the OP help right now)... if that is really another character string laid out as described then you might have difficulty with time zones for some values by converting to POSIXct first. If so, you can avoid the double conversion by using sub:

timestr <- "2014-08-13 00:30:00"
result <- sub("^(\\d{4})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{2}) (\\d{2}):(\\d{2}):(\\d{2})$", "\\1\\2\\3\\4\\5\\6", timestr )

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On November 3, 2014 9:01:55 PM EST, Peter Alspach <Peter.Alspach at plantandfood.co.nz> wrote:
>Tena koe
>
>For example:
>
>myTime <- Sys.time()
>myTime
>[1] "2014-11-04 14:58:10 NZDT"
>format(myTime, '%Y%m%d:%H%M%S')
>[1] "20141104:145810"
>
>My information in ?strptime.
>
>HTH ....
>
>Peter Alspach
>
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>Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2014 11:10 a.m.
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>Subject: [R] Convert time format to character
>
>Suppose I have a object in time format
>
>2014-08-13 00:30:00
>
>I want to convert it to a character string 20140813003000
>
>Is is possible ?
>
>Tjun Kiat
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