Looping through vector of dates in R drops class info

Question

Here is my example.

my_df <- data.frame(col_1 = c(1,2), 
col_2 = c(as.Date(\'2018-11-11\'), as.Date(\'2016-01-01\')))
dates_list <- my_df$col_2
for(el in d         


        

Answer 1

You can also use as_date function from lubridate.

library(lubridate)

for(i in dates_list){
   print(as_date(i))
}

[1] "2018-11-11"
[1] "2016-01-01"