I have a data frame which contains some valuable date information. But for a few of the dates, the day information missing .

Viz:
> interesting.data$date 
[1] "1/22/93" "1/22/93" "1/23/93" "1/00/93" "1/28/93" "1/31/93" "1/12/93"

i.e. for dates where the day info is missing, the "%d" part of the "%m/%d/%yy" format is simply represented as "00".

When I apply as.Date to the date information, the dates which don't contain exact day information are converted to "NA".

Viz:
> as.Date(interesting.data$date)
[1] "1993-01-22" "1993-01-22" "1993-01-23" NA "1993-01-28" "1993-01-31" "1993-01-12"

Is there a way of using the as.Date function when I only have partial dates (eg missing day information  which is represented as "00", as above) such
 that the date isn't represented as NA?

Thanks, 
Anupa







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