Creating Date objects
The readr import functions can automatically recognize dates in standard ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD) and parse columns accordingly. If you want to import a dataset with dates in other formats, you can use parse_date().
In this exercise, you'll be working with some weather data. Each date is stored according to American convention: MM/DD/YYYY. In order to specify this format, you'll use %m for two-digit month, %d for two-digit day, and %Y for four-digit year.
This exercise is part of the course
Reading Data into R with readr
Exercise instructions
Parse the date column of the weather data frame using parse_date(). Set the format argument to "%m/%d/%Y" and assign the result back to the date column.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Change type of date column
weather$date <- ___