parse_date
From lubridate v1.1.0
by Garrett Grolemund
Change dates into a POSIXct format
parse_date is an internal function for the
ymd
family of functions. Its recommended to
use these functions instead. It transforms dates stored
in character and numeric vectors to POSIXct objects. All
inputed dates are considered to have the same order and
to use the same separator.
- Keywords
- chron
Usage
parse_date(x, formats, quiet = FALSE,
seps = find_separator(x), tz = "UTC")
Arguments
- x
- a character or numeric vector of suspected dates
- formats
- a vector of date-time format elements in
the order they occur within the dates. See
strptime
for format elements. - quiet
- logical. When TRUE function evalueates without displaying customary messages.
- seps
- a vector of possible characters used to separate elements within the dates.
- tz
- a character string that specifies the time zone with which to parse the dates
Value
- a vector of POSIXct date-time objects
See Also
Examples
x <- c("09-01-01", "09-01-02", "09-01-03")
parse_date(x, c("%y", "%m", "%d"), seps = "-")
# "2009-01-01 UTC" "2009-01-02 UTC" "2009-01-03 UTC"
ymd(x)
# "2009-01-01 UTC" "2009-01-02 UTC" "2009-01-03 UTC"
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