Convert Column in Data Frame To Date
columnToDate(df, column, dbg = TRUE)
df | data frame |
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column | name of column in |
dbg | if |
df
with column
converted to class Date
with
as.Date
df <- data.frame(id = 1:2, date = c("2018-10-23", "2018-10-23")) str(df)#> 'data.frame': 2 obs. of 2 variables: #> $ id : int 1 2 #> $ date: Factor w/ 1 level "2018-10-23": 1 1df <- columnToDate(df, "date")#> Converting column 'date' to Date ... ok.str(df)#> 'data.frame': 2 obs. of 2 variables: #> $ id : int 1 2 #> $ date: Date, format: "2018-10-23" "2018-10-23"