formatDate: Format Dates
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formatDate converts characters or numbers to dates. is.Date indicates which elements are Dates.

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formatDate(x, format = "dmY", sep = "/", century = NULL)

is.Date(x)

`x`	a character or numeric object
`format`	only for character vectors:
`sep`	separator character for date components
`century`	specify either 2000 or 1900 for two-digit years

"dmY" represents dd mm YYYY format. In combination with separators from sep, this can change to several date formats. For example, "dmy" + "-" convert to "dd-mm-YYYY" format.

See as.Date for more date formats.

Myo Minn Oo (Email: dr.myominnoo@gmail.com | Website: https://myominnoo.github.io/)

generate, egen, labelVars

dates <- c("2019-01-15", "2019-01-20", "2019-01-21", "2019-01-22")
is.Date(dates)
formatDate(dates, "Ymd", "-")
y <- formatDate(dates, "Ymd", "-")
is.Date(y)
y
# dates in numeric format MS excel
x <- 42705:42710
y <- formatDate(x)
y