[R] Converting POSIXct format date to Character format

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

R is case sensitive, the column name is YEAR_END_Date, neither of

Year_END_Date
YEAR_END_DATE

matches that name. Try

select(PLC, format(YEAR_END_Date,format = "%B %d, %Y"), EPS)


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Às 19:11 de 24/03/21, e-mail ma015k3113 via R-help escreveu:
> I have a data frame "PLC" which has two variables Year_END_Date   EPS
> 
> YEAR_END_Date     EPS
> 2010-09-10        .10
> 2009-08-10        .20
> 
> When I tried to convert Year_END_Date to character format using
> 
> select(PLC, format(Year_END_Date,format = "%B %d, %Y"), EPS) I get an error
> 
> Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
> x Column `Year_END_Date` doesn't exist.
> 
> I tried using
> 
> PLC_1 <- select(PLC, as.character(YEAR_END_DATE), EPS)
> 
> I get the following error
> 
> Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
> x Columns `2010-09-30`, `2009-09-30`, `2008-09-30`, `2007-09-30`, `2006-09-30`, etc. don't exist.
> Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
> 
> Can anyone please guide me what is happening and how can I resolve it?
> 
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