Try this:

strptime(x, ifelse(nchar(x) == 8, '%d/%m/%y', '%d/%m/%Y'))

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Megh Dal <megh700004@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have following kind of dataset (all are dates) in my Excel sheet.
>
> 09/08/08
> 09/05/08
> 09/04/08
> 09/02/08
> 09/01/08
> 29/08/2008
> 28/08/2008
> 27/08/2008
> 26/08/2008
> 25/08/2008
> 22/08/2008
> 21/08/2008
> 20/08/2008
> 18/08/2008
> 14/08/2008
> 13/08/2008
> 08/12/08
> 08/11/08
> 08/08/08
> 08/07/08
>
> However I want to use R to compile those data to make all dates in same
> format. Can anyone please tell me any automated way for doing that?
>
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