R converting a factor YYYY-MM to a date

Question

I have a dataframe with a date in the form YYYY-MM, class factor and I am trying to convert it to class date.

I tried:

Date <- c(\"2015-08\",\"201         


        

Answer 1

R does not support Dates in the format "%Y-%m"... A day is needed

You can do the following:

as.POSIXct(paste0(as.character(df[,1]),"-01"), format = "%Y-%m-%d")

Resulting in

"2015-08-01 CEST" "2015-09-01 CEST" "2015-08-01 CEST"