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 anytime:

test=as.factor("X200801")
library(anytime)
anydate((gsub("X","",test)))
[1] "2008-01-01"

As suggested by @akrun we can simply supply a format that will be used within our environment with addFormats and use anydate to convert to date:

addFormats("X%Y%m")
anydate("X200801")