How to convert a string factor into Date?

Question

I\'m working with the London crime dataset which contains dates in an integer format. I melted them and now they have become factors.

For example, \"

Answer 1

Using base R we can add the date component using paste0 convert to date object using appropriate format.

as.Date(paste0("X200801", "01"), format = "X%Y%m%d")
#[1] "2008-01-01"