Extract Month and Year From Date in R

Question

I have tried a number of methods to no avail. I have data in terms of a date (YYYY-MM-DD) and am trying to get in terms of just the month and year, such as: MM-YYYY or YYYY-

Answer 1

Here's another solution using a package solely dedicated to working with dates and times in R:

library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)

(df <- tibble(ID = 1:3, Date = c("2004-02-06" , "2006-03-14", "2007-07-16")))
#> # A tibble: 3 x 2
#>      ID Date      
#>         
#> 1     1 2004-02-06
#> 2     2 2006-03-14
#> 3     3 2007-07-16

df %>%
  mutate(
    Date = ymd(Date),
    Month_Yr = format_ISO8601(Date, precision = "ym")
  )
#> # A tibble: 3 x 3
#>      ID Date       Month_Yr
#>            
#> 1     1 2004-02-06 2004-02 
#> 2     2 2006-03-14 2006-03 
#> 3     3 2007-07-16 2007-07

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