Example 1: Convert One String to Datetime

Example 2: Convert Column of Strings to Datetime

Here we are going to take a string as input and convert it to DateTime.

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# consider a string
string = "2021-11-21 4:5:23"
 
# convert string to datetime
final = as.POSIXct(string, format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", tz="UTC")
 
# display
print(final)
 
# get the type
class(final)

Output:

[1] "2021-11-21 04:05:23 UTC"
[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

How to Convert String to Datetime in R?

In this article, we will discuss how to convert String to Datetime in R Programming Language. We can convert string to DateTime by using the POSIXct function

Syntax: as.POSIXct(string, format=”%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”, tz=”UTC”)

where

string is the input string

format represents the datetime format

tz specifies local time zone

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Example 2: Convert Column of Strings to Datetime

Example 1: Convert One String to Datetime

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