[R] How to convert European short dates to ISO format?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Jeff Newmiller wrote:

> Fix your format specification?
> ?strptime

>> I have been trying to convert European short dates formatted as dd/mm/yy
>> into the ISO 8601 but the function as.Dates interprets them as American
>> ones (mm/dd/yy), thus I get:

Look at Hadley Wickham's 'tidyverse' collection as described in R for Data
Science. There are date, datetime, and time functions that will do just what
you want.

Rich