CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rstringdate
user3579613
user3579613

Reputation: 133

Date to character with specific format

This seems like a really easy question, but 30 mins of Googling didn't solve it:

How can I convert a Date (YYYY-MM-DD) to a character with the typical American format (MM/DD/YYYY)? In other words, I know I can use as.Date(dt, format = "%Y-%m-%d") to specify the format of the input date, but how can I specify the format of the output??

dt = "2013-04-19"
as.Date(dt, format = "%Y-%m-%d")
[1] "2013-04-19" #### NOT what I want
as.character(as.Date(dt, format = "%Y-%m-%d"))
[1] "2013-04-19" #### Also NOT what I want

"04/19/2013" Is what I want

Many thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 231

Answers (1)

12b345b6b78
12b345b6b78

Reputation: 1015

format(as.Date(dt, format = "%Y-%m-%d"), "%m/%d/%Y")
[1] "04/19/2013"

Upvotes: 4

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