How to convert dd/mm/yy to yyyy-mm-dd in R

Question

I have a vector with dates values in this format dd/mm/yy e.g.(27/06/16). I want to convert this in this format yyyy-mm-dd e.g.(2016-06-27) for logical comparison. I am usin

Answer 1

Try

as.Date( as.character("27/06/16"), format = "%Y-%m-%d")