Convert a yyyymm format to date in R? [duplicate]

Answer 1

A date should always have a given day, therefore consider to add the day at the end of YYYYMM (in the example below 01 the first day of the month). Convert the numeric value to character and the character to a Date:

as.Date(paste0(as.character(201603), '01'), format='%Y%m%d')