Cast a character to a date

As we saw in the video, a good workflow for parsing dates using readr is to, for example:

Use parse_date("2012-14-08", format = "%Y-%d-%m") first, then
Use col_date(format = "%Y-%d-%m") within a col_types() argument to read_csv().

In "desserts.csv", the variable uk_airdate is formatted like "17 August 2010". Let's parse, then cast this variable!

Later on in Chapter 4, we'll showcase some functions from the lubridate package to help you extract data from dates, once they are cast properly.

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Use ?parse_date to find the right format to parse the date "17 August 2010".