Converting year and month (“yyyy-mm” format) to a date?

Question

I have a dataset that looks like this:

Month    count
2009-01  12
2009-02  310
2009-03  2379
2009-04  234
2009-05  14
2009-08  1
2009-09  34
2009-10  2386
         


        

Answer 1

Using anytime package:

library(anytime)

anydate("2009-01")
# [1] "2009-01-01"