Convert four digit year values to a date type

Question

I\'ve an integer column in my dataset which has four digit year values, like:

 2001 2002 2002 2002 2003 2005 

I am trying to convert the fo

Answer 1

You can do:

library(lubridate)
yrs <- c(2001, 2002, 2002, 2002, 2003, 2005)
yr <- as.Date(as.character(yrs), format = "%Y")
y <- year(yr)

Output:

2001 2002 2002 2002 2003 2005