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

If you don't want to deal with Levels, try this:

First convert your data into character:

data<- as.character(mydata[1,1])

Then give the date format you need, for example:

date<- format(as.POSIXct(data, tz="EST"),"%Y-%m-%d %H")