as.POSIXct.R: string.to.POSIXct

In decisionpatterns/date.reader: This packages extends type.convert and read.table to automatically detect and coerce date fields to POSIX.

Description

Convers character to POSIXct

Usage

string.to.POSIXct(x, format, tz = getOption("date.reader")$tz)

Arguments

x	character; vector to convert to a POSIX date
format	character; name of the format for the values. If this parameter is NA, then the function will try to guess the format for each value
tz	character; optional time zone

Value

POSIXct vector (or NA, if a value cannot be parsed)

See Also

as.POSIXct
strptime for format strings

Examples

## Not run: 
  dts <- c( '20140210', '19791118', '19720329' )
  string.to.POSIXct( dts )

  dts <- rep( '20140210', 10 )
  string.to.POSIXct( dts )

  dts <- c( '14-02-10', '79-11-18' ) # FAIL(?)
  string.to.POSIXct( dts )

  string.to.POSIXct( dts, format='ymd' )

## End(Not run)

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