Parse datetime with lubridate

Question

I am trying to parse the following datetime with the following format:

library(lubridate)
a <- \"2004-05-07 18:24:58.666424\"

I tried th

Answer 1

Try

options(digits.secs=6)
as.POSIXct(a,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%OS")
#[1] "2004-05-07 18:24:58.666424"