Hi

My dataframe is imported from SAS as a csv file(which cant be any
different).

There is a vector "dato" that is dates like this:
03/12/2004 and that is *day/month/year*.

> vms[1:20,]
     CKRDYRNR RACE_ID        datofra  minkaelvedato CHRNR cowno
*dato*   opstartdato
muno                 timestamp                   closingtime transtype
1  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
03/12/2004   30APR2004    1 03DEC2004:18:54:48.0
03DEC2004:19:01:37.0         1
2  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
04/12/2004   30APR2004    1 04DEC2004:19:10:29.0
04DEC2004:19:15:41.0         1
3  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
05/12/2004   30APR2004    1 05DEC2004:18:37:37.0
05DEC2004:18:51:23.0         1
4  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
06/12/2004   30APR2004    1 06DEC2004:10:18:16.0
06DEC2004:10:24:50.0         1
5  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
07/12/2004   30APR2004    2 07DEC2004:19:51:52.0
07DEC2004:19:56:51.0         1
6  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
08/12/2004   30APR2004    1 08DEC2004:23:44:51.0
08DEC2004:23:55:21.0         1
7  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
09/12/2004   30APR2004    1 09DEC2004:22:01:46.0
09DEC2004:22:07:50.0         1
8  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
10/12/2004   30APR2004    2 10DEC2004:12:47:56.0
10DEC2004:12:59:24.0         1
9  8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
11/12/2004   30APR2004    1 11DEC2004:23:16:38.0
11DEC2004:23:26:50.0         1
10 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
12/12/2004   30APR2004    2 12DEC2004:18:30:28.0
12DEC2004:18:36:42.0         1
11 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
13/12/2004   30APR2004    1 13DEC2004:23:00:28.0
13DEC2004:23:06:25.0         1
12 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
14/12/2004   30APR2004    1 14DEC2004:13:00:37.0
14DEC2004:13:05:29.0         1
13 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
15/12/2004   30APR2004    2 15DEC2004:20:01:36.0
15DEC2004:20:06:17.0         1
14 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
16/12/2004   30APR2004    2 16DEC2004:14:53:20.0
16DEC2004:14:59:49.0         1
15 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
17/12/2004   30APR2004    1 17DEC2004:15:31:20.0
17DEC2004:15:38:17.0         1
16 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
18/12/2004   30APR2004    1 18DEC2004:20:19:07.0
18DEC2004:20:25:05.0         1
17 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
19/12/2004   30APR2004    1 19DEC2004:18:33:58.0
19DEC2004:18:41:11.0         1
18 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
20/12/2004   30APR2004    1 20DEC2004:13:12:09.0
20DEC2004:13:18:16.0         1
19 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
21/12/2004   30APR2004    1 21DEC2004:15:05:20.0
21DEC2004:15:13:17.0         1
20 8004500307    1203         29OCT2004     03DEC2004 19365   307
22/12/2004   30APR2004    1 22DEC2004:14:36:19.0
22DEC2004:14:44:28.0         1


It is read as a factor by R and I cant find a way to translate them to a
date class because the functions i can find and have used before on other
data is mdy.

Can anyone help me with this?

Much thanks
Rina

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