Converting date with additional characters in format

Question

I have a string variable that I want to parse to class Date. In addition to the day, year and month, the format has other characters like separators (,

Answer 1

If it is character class, you can try:

library(lubridate)

test <- c("u'9'", "u'2005'", "u'06'")

dym(paste(gsub("u|'", "", test), collapse = "/"))
[1] "2005-06-09 UTC"

Here I use lubridate to convert the string where I removed "u" and the ' character into time format. The collapse character I used in paste is arbitrary, lubridate can handle pretty much anything as a separator between date parts.