Format Date to Year-Month in R

Question

I would like to retain my current date column in year-month format as date. It currently gets converted to chr format. I have tried as_datetime but it coerces all values to

Answer 1

You can solve this with zoo::as.yearmon() function. Follows the solution:

library(tidyquant)
library(magrittr) 
library(dplyr)

df <- data.frame(Date=c("2017-01-01","2017-01-02","2017-01-03","2017-01-04",
                  "2018-01-01","2018-01-02","2018-02-01","2018-03-02"),
           N=c(24,10,13,12,10,10,33,45))
df %<>% mutate(Date = zoo::as.yearmon(Date))