Convert numeric date format (YYYYMMDD; 20150101) into Year-Month

Question

Can anyone of you help in converting the date from 20150101 to abbreviated form Jan-2015 ?

I tried the below method.

x = 20         


        

Answer 1

You can use a combination of strptime to convert the string to a date object and format to format to what you want:

date = "20150101"
format(strptime(date,format="%Y%m%d"),"%b-%Y")