R - Help in Converting factor to date (%m/%d/%Y %H:%M)

Question

I am importing a data frame into R, but R is not recognizing the columns with the dates as being in dates format.

> mydata[1,1] [1] 1/1/2003 0:00 216332 Levels:

Answer 1

When dealing with dates, I find lubridate can be very helpful:

library(lubridate)
mydata[, 1] <- mdy_hm(mydata[, 1])