Convert yyyymmdd string to Date class in R

Question

I would like to convert these dates with format YYYYMMDD to a Date class.

dates <- data.frame(Date = c(\"20130707\", \"20130706\", \"20130705\", \"2013070         


        

Answer 1

You need to provide the Date column, not the entire data.frame.

R> as.Date(dates[["Date"]], "%Y%m%d")
[1] "2013-07-07" "2013-07-06" "2013-07-05" "2013-07-04"