Convert a String into Date Format in R Programming as.Date() Function (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025

**as.Date()** function in R Language is used to convert a string into date format.

Syntax: as.Date(x, format)Parameters: x: string variableformat: Format in which string is declared(%m/%d/%y)

Example 1:

Python3 1== `

R program to convert string into date

Creating a string vector

dates <- c("27 / 02 / 92")

Conversion into date format

result<-as.Date(dates, "% d/% m/% y")

Print result

print(result)

`

Output:

[1] "1992-02-27"

Example 2:

Python3 1== `

R program to convert string into date

Creating a string vector

dates <- c("02 / 27 / 92", "02 / 27 / 92",
"01 / 14 / 92", "02 / 28 / 92",
"02 / 01 / 92")

Conversion into date format

result<-as.Date(dates, "% m/% d/% y")

Print result

print(result)

`

Output:

[1] "1992-02-27" "1992-02-27" "1992-01-14" "1992-02-28" "1992-02-01"