Hi John, Sorry but if this sounds really as a newbie question. I looked at the data as you suggested using glimpse(name of the dataset)
and then View(dput(head(ak,20))) to capture it as a table. Is there an option where i can save this view table & share along. I used dput but that would not work as it is not giving data out in the required format due to multiple columns. Please suggest on view. Also i tried mutate but still get the same error message: Error in UseMethod("group_by_") : no applicable method for 'group_by_' applied to an object of class "c('integer', 'numeric')". Please see the output from View(dput(head(ak,20))) Observations: 379674 Variables: $ waybill (int) 43360533, 43361203, 42754126, 43154067... $ branch (fctr) GURGAON-25, GURGAON-25, AHMEDABAD-03,... $ type (fctr) FMC, FMC, RBA, HBA, HBA, HBA, RBA, RB... $ pickdate (fctr) 2015/06/21, 2015/06/22, 2015/06/04, 2... $ city (fctr) Gurgaon, Gurgaon, Ahmedabad, Vapi, Va... $ bookingzone (fctr) G-N1, G-N1, G-W1, G-W1, G-W1, G-W1, G... $ destinationzone (fctr) G-N1, G-N1, G-W1, G-W1, G-W1, G-W1, G... $ state (fctr) G-N1, G-N1, G-W1, G-W1, G-W1, G-W1, G... $ mod (fctr) AIR, AIR, SURFACE, AIR, AIR, SURFACE,... $ mode_payment (fctr) CREDIT, CREDIT, TOPAY, CREDIT, CREDIT... $ delivery_gateway (fctr) KANNUR, KANNUR, KANNUR, KANNUR, KANNU... $ delivery_date (fctr) 7/8/2015, , 6/20/2015, 6/13/2015, 6/1 Does this help? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Date-as-Integer-tp4711377p4711456.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.