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strptime, as.POSIXct and as.Date return unexpected NA
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Closed 4 years ago.
I have a vector of strings which I need to convert to dates. This only works for some of the dates which are in the format of "dd-mmm-YYYY".
Example: this works: strptime("21-Sep-2017", format = "%d-%b-%Y")
This does not work and returns NA: strptime("21-Dec-2017", format = "%d-%b-%Y")
What am I doing wrong or not seeing?
This is because your locale is probably one where December is not abbreviated as Dec. Without changing your session settings, you could simply do
lubridate::parse_date_time("21-Dec-2017", orders = "d-b-Y", locale = "us")
[1] "2017-12-21 UTC"
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Mysterious error by parsing French dates on OSX
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Closed 11 months ago.
I've got a date in character format (month in French) that looks like this -
date = "30juillet2021"
I'd like to convert it to dd-mm-yyyy date format
Desired output
30/07/2021
I've tried a number of solutions on stackoverflow, but none seem to work.
Any help would be appreciated
Sys.setlocale('LC_TIME', "French_France")
[1] "French_France.1252"
as.Date(date, "%d%B%Y")
[1] "2021-07-30"
format(as.Date(date, "%d%B%Y"), "%d/%m/%Y")
[1] "30/07/2021"
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How to convert Excel date format to proper date in R
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Closed 2 years ago.
I want to convert numeric date format to date. I.E. I have value 44109, but want to convert it to 2020-10-06. How is it possible?
Try something like below
> as.Date(44109,origin = "1900-01-01")
[1] "2020-10-07"
this works as well
x <- as.POSIXct(44109 * (60*60*24), origin="1899-12-30", tz="GMT")
"2020-10-05 GMT"
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strptime, as.POSIXct and as.Date return unexpected NA
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I tried to convert Excel date character to date-time class using POSIXlt. This is an example of my data: "01:56:00 06-Apr-2017".
For the format, I used the character string giving a date-time format as used by strptime.
I tried as.POSIXlt(new_dtime, format = "%H:%M:%S %d-%b-%Y"), but it resulted in a bunch of NA. I am sure that the problem is related to the month abbreviation, despite I used %b as strptime suggests. Any help?
I'm going to take a guess that this is a locale problem: from ?strptime, %b denotes "[a]bbreviated month name in the current locale on this platform" (emphasis added). "Apr" is the abbreviation for April in an English locale. This question suggests the following solution:
str1 <- "01:56:00 06-Apr-2017"
orig_locale <- Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME")
Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "C")
as.POSIXct(str1, format = "%H:%M:%S %d-%b-%Y")
Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", orig_locale)
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Generating a date from a string with a 'Month-Year' format
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Closed 4 years ago.
I have a list of program dates as character strings in the following format
program.date.have <-c('Sep-14','Aug-14','Sep-16')
I am assuming that all these programs started on the first day of each month, and I want the program.date to end up like
program.date.want<-c('2014-09-01', '2014-08-01, '2016-09-01') or in YYYY-MM-DD format.
To start somewhere I have decided to covert the character strings into the date format in the following way
program.date.have<-c('Sep-14','Aug-14','Sep-16')
betterDates <- as.Date(program.date,
format = "%m-%y")
But even that does not seem to work. how do I use values in program.date variable to be converted into format I want in program.date.want
We can use as.yearmon from zoo, specify the format, and wrap with as.Date which automatically generates the 'day' as the first of the month.
library(zoo)
as.Date(as.yearmon(program.date.have, "%b-%y"))
#[1] "2014-09-01" "2014-08-01" "2016-09-01"
Or a base R option is to paste the '01' at the start or end and then specify the appropriate format in as.Date
as.Date(paste0(program.date.have, "-01"), "%b-%y-%d")
#[1] "2014-09-01" "2014-08-01" "2016-09-01"
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R convert character vector values to Date values
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Closed 7 years ago.
I have a large number of strings of the following format:
a <- "19260701"
I would like to convert these do the following date format:
1926-07-01
when I try:
as.Date(a, "%Y-%m-%d")
I get
NA
You need to put the format of a in the function as.Date() :
a <- "19260701"
as.Date(a,format="%Y%m%d")
[1] "1926-07-01"
a<- "19260701"
library(lubridate)
ymd(a)
[1] "1926-07-01 UTC"