[R] Help with strftime error "character string is not in a standard unambiguous format"

[Chris Evans]

OK. I'm an idiot (not for the first time and, sadly, no doubt not for the last). strptime() was all that was needed: just that one pesky character and I can't remember now why I went astray there, but thanks to all who supplied the answer and all who supplied additional useful information. 

As ever, deeply indebted to the R and R-help communities, 

Chris 

> From: "Ismail SEZEN" <sezenismail at gmail.com>
> To: "Chris Evans" <chrishold at psyctc.org>
> Cc: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, 12 September, 2016 10:36:51
> Subject: Re: [R] Help with strftime error "character string is not in a standard
> unambiguous format"

> It should be strptime for character vectors.

> strptime("Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM",format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p”)

>> On 12 Sep 2016, at 08:57, Chris Evans < chrishold at psyctc.org > wrote:

>>> strftime("Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM",format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p")
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