Convert Factor to Date/Time in R

Question

This is the information contained within my dataframe:

## minuteofday: factor w/ 89501 levels \"2013-06-01 08:07:00\",...
## dDdt: num 7.8564 2.318 ...
## mi         


        

Answer 1

Try this

library(lubridate) minuteave$minutes <- ymd_hms(minuteave$minutes)

this will return minuteave$minutes as a POSIXct object.

Hope this helps you.