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

Using lubridate and zoo packages:

library(lubridate)
library(zoo)

x <- "20150101"

as.yearmon(as.Date(ymd(x)))

[1] "jan 2015"