Incorrect Conversion of Date as a Factor to a Date

Question

I am having trouble calculating a date that is imported in from a .csv file. What I want to do is take that date in the factor DateClosed and generate a date in a date fie

Answer 1

Manipulating dates becomes really easy using lubridate package.

mdy(factor(c("7/30/2007","12/12/2007", "5/8/2009")))

"2007-07-30 UTC" "2007-12-12 UTC" "2009-05-08 UTC"

Or using parse_date_time with the same package:

parse_date_time(factor(c("7/30/2007","12/12/2007", "5/8/2009")),c('mdY'))
[1] "2007-07-30 UTC" "2007-12-12 UTC" "2009-05-08 UTC"