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I want to change the date format of trendsDataD to that of trendsDataE and also I want to change the chr to numeric inorder to merge them into a single table.

Jaap
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Mathew Jose Pallippadan
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you can give a try to this

eg

as<- "03-jan"
as<- strptime(as,"%d-%b")

it will give

"2018-01-03 IST"

now format according to your need

as <- format(as.Date(as),"%Y-%m-%d")

output

"2018-01-03"
girijesh96
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  • @Mathew Jose Pallippadan, If my answer was able to solve your problem then you may mark it as accepted. Thank you – girijesh96 Mar 28 '18 at 05:42