Selecting the right parsing function

lubridate provides a set of functions for parsing dates of a known order. For example, ymd() will parse dates with year first, followed by month and then day. The parsing is flexible, for example, it will parse the m whether it is numeric (e.g. 9 or 09), a full month name (e.g. September), or an abbreviated month name (e.g. Sep).

All the functions with y, m and d in any order exist. If your dates have times as well, you can use the functions that start with ymd, dmy, mdy or ydm and are followed by any of _h, _hm or _hms.

To see all the functions available look at ymd() for dates and ymd_hms() for datetimes.

Here are some challenges. In each case we've provided a date, your job is to choose the correct function to parse it.

For each date the ISO 8601 format is displayed as a comment after it, to help you check your work

Choose the correct function to parse x.
Choose the correct function to parse y.
Choose the correct function to parse z.

Exercise

Selecting the right parsing function

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