[R] Fwd: as.Date gives NAs when transforming from factor

[Omar André Gonzáles Díaz]

Hi,

I would appreciate your help.

I’m having problems when transforming  a column from “factor” to “date”.



It does not convert just: 31/03/2016 correctly, it out puts: NA.



04/04/2016  turns out as: 2016-04-04



02/04/2016 turns out as: 2016-02-04



31/03/2016 turns out as: NA

03/04/2016 turns out as: 2016-03-04.







Code:

a <- read.csv("dates.csv", stringsAsFactors = F)



a$Date <- as.Date(a$Date, format = "%m/%d/%Y")




Posible Solutions:



I’ve read here that it has to do with the Sys Locale, and the solution was
using: “LC_TIME”, “C”. But I didn’t have success.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15566875/as-date-returning-na-in-r






# Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME")

#

# Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "C")












Slds,











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