colToDate: Convert a Character Time Column into a Date and Strip Out...

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Convert a Character Time Column into a Date and Strip Out Hour and Day

Description

This function converts a character column in a data frame to time and then strips out day and hour of the time as new columns. The output is a new data frame with one modified column (character converted to date) and two new columns (day of week and hour of day).

Usage

colToDate(dat, dateColName, dateFormat)

Arguments

dat	This is the data source to be converted
dateColName	This is the name of the date column to be converted
dateFormat	This is the format of the date column

Examples

testDat <- data.frame(stringsAsFactors = FALSE, time = c("2016-10-31","2016-12-25","2016-07-04"),event = c("Halloween","Christmas","US Independence Day"))
testDat <- colToDate(testDat,"time","%Y-%m-%d")

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