/tags/dates-in-r/ Recent content in dates in r on Daniel D. Bonneau Hugo -- gohugo.io en Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 /learnr/convert_to_date_in_r/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 /learnr/convert_to_date_in_r/ Character to Date in R Often, when we read in a data set that is supposed to contain date values, R will treat them as character types. This can cause problems if we’re attempting to use that date for a visualization, to extract the individual components (month, day, year), or simply order our data set from the most recent data to the oldest. Luckily, we can convert our character strings to date variable types in R with just a few short lines of code.