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

Classic R:

> start_numeric <- as.Date('20170215', format = '%Y%m%d');
> start_numeric
[1] "2017-02-15"
> format(start_numeric, "%Y%m%d")
[1] "20170215"