Converting character to timestamp in dataframe

Question

I have a timestamp in a dataframe that is recognized as a character class. For some reason, I am not able to convert it to a poxis timestamp.

Here is a sample of the da

Answer 1

We can use anytime

library(anytime)
anytime('2016-11-01T00:15:00.000Z')
#[1] "2016-11-01 00:15:00 IST"

Or use strptime

strptime('2016-11-01T00:15:00.000Z', '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OSZ')
#[1] "2016-11-01 00:15:00 IST"