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

You can use parse_datetime from the readr package:
testdate <- factor("X200801")
parse_datetime(as.character(testdate), format = 'X%Y%M')

I wouldn't recommend using MM/DD/YYY in R. Keeping things in the ISO 8601 format is preferable.