[R] Date

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Val,
Try this:

dat=read.csv("myfile.csv",stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

However, the apparently silent conversion of format is a mystery to
me. The only time I have struck something like this was when exporting
dates from Excel some years ago, and there was a silent conversion to
mm/dd/yyyy format if the dates were in dd/mm/yyyy format. Could you
post some sample data?

Jim


On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 8:44 AM Val <valkremk using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IHi All, l,
>
> I am  reading a csv file  and one of the columns is named as  "mydate"
>  with this form, 2019-09-16.
>
> I am reading this file as
>
> dat=read.csv("myfile.csv")
>      the structure of the data looks like as follow
>
> str(dat)
> mydate : chr  "09/16/2019" "02/21/2021" "02/22/2021" "10/11/2017" ...
>
> Please note the format  has  changed from YYYY-mm-dd  to mm/dd/YYYY
> When I tried to change this   as a Date using
>
> as.Date(as.Date(mydate,     format="%m/%d/%Y" )
> I am getting this error message
>     Error in charToDate(x) :
>       characte string is not in a standard unambiguous format
>
> My question is,
> 1. how can I read the file as it is (i.e., without changing the date format) ?
> 2. why does R change the date format?
>
> Thank you,
>
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