Re: [R] timeDate with month designated by three letters.

Thanks for the assistance How does strptime("04-MAY-11 1428",format="%d-%b-%y %H%M") differ from timeDate("04-MAY-11 1428",format="%d-%b-%y %H%M") ? -Original Message- > strptime("04-MAY-11 1428",format="%d-%b-%y %H%M") [1] "2011-05-04 14:28:00" -- Clint Bowman

[R] timeDate with month designated by three letters.

Dear R Experts: I am trying to convert a date and time character field to timeDate where the month is presented as three letters, such as "JUN" for June, etc. This is an example of the full character field: "04-MAY-11 1428" What is the proper format syntax? I've tried timeDate("04-MAY