How to convert a string factor into Date?

Question

I\'m working with the London crime dataset which contains dates in an integer format. I melted them and now they have become factors.

For example, \"

Answer 1

One possibility is to use lubridate

ss <- factor("X200801")

library(lubridate)
ymd(paste(sub("X", "", ss), "01", sep = ""))
#[1] "2008-01-01"