strptime, as.POSIXct and as.Date return unexpected NA

Question

When I try to parse a timestamp in the following format: \"Thu Nov 8 15:41:45 2012\", only NA is returned.

I am using Mac OS X, R 2.15.2 and Rstudio 0.9

Answer 1

Was just messing around with same problem, and found this solution to be much cleaner because there is no need to change any of system settings manually, because there is a wrapper function doing this job in the lubridate package, and all you have to do is set the argument locale:

date <- c("23. juni 2014", "1. november 2014", "8. marts 2014", "16. juni 2014", "12. december 2014", "13. august 2014")
df$date <- dmy(df$Date, locale = "Danish")
[1] "2014-06-23" "2014-11-01" "2014-03-08" "2014-06-16" "2014-12-12" "2014-08-13"