[R] Converting Character date to Dates in r

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Admire,
Your attachment didn't get through, although CSV format should. The
code you included seems a very roundabout way to extract a series of
dates as character strings and as there is no assignment of return
values in some lines, is unlikely to work. Perhaps if you send just a
few of the original strings, someone can answer your question.

Jim

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 4:02 AM Admire Tarisirayi Chirume
<atchirume using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, i hope this email finds you well. Kindly help me to format dates
> shown as character to dates using as.Dates.
>
> Attached herewith is my data in excel csv format.
>
> The following is the  r-code i have used in my analysis:
>
>
> setwd("Z:/2022/September/Inflation forecasts")
> inflation<-read.csv("Inflation_forecasts_1.csv")
> attach(inflation)
> inflation[,1:2 ] #subsetting the dataframe
> inflation.df<-inflation[,1:2]
> attach(inflation.df)
> #Renaming variables
> inflation<- rename(inflation.df,
>                    cpi = CPI,
>                    year=period)
>
> #subsetting data April 2020 to current
> inflation.2<-data.frame(inflation[-c(1:135),])
> ####Defining variables for use in the analysis
> attach(inflation.2)
>
> t <- year
> class(inflation.2$cpi)
> inflation.2$cpi <- as.numeric(as.character(inflation.2$cpi))
> Y <- cpi
> sapply(inflation.2, class)
>
> format(as.Date(inflation.2$period), "%Y-%m")
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Admire
>
>
>
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