r - 在R中更改日期格式

Question

我在R中有一些非常简单的数据，需要更改其日期格式:

 date midpoint
1   31/08/2011   0.8378
2   31/07/2011   0.8457
3   30/06/2011   0.8147
4   31/05/2011   0.7970
5   30/04/2011   0.7877
6   31/03/2011   0.7411
7   28/02/2011   0.7624
8   31/01/2011   0.7665
9   31/12/2010   0.7500
10  30/11/2010   0.7734
11  31/10/2010   0.7511
12  30/09/2010   0.7263
13  31/08/2010   0.7158
14  31/07/2010   0.7110
15  30/06/2010   0.6921
16  31/05/2010   0.7005
17  30/04/2010   0.7113
18  31/03/2010   0.7027
19  28/02/2010   0.6973
20  31/01/2010   0.7260
21  31/12/2009   0.7154
22  30/11/2009   0.7287
23  31/10/2009   0.7375

我希望使用 %d/%m/%Y的标准R格式，而不是 %Y-%m-%d
我该如何进行更改？我试过了:

nzd$date <- format(as.Date(nzd$date), "%Y/%m/%d")

但这只是截止年份，并在当天增加了零:

 [1] "0031/08/20" "0031/07/20" "0030/06/20" "0031/05/20" "0030/04/20"
 [6] "0031/03/20" "0028/02/20" "0031/01/20" "0031/12/20" "0030/11/20"
 [11] "0031/10/20" "0030/09/20" "0031/08/20" "0031/07/20" "0030/06/20"
 [16] "0031/05/20" "0030/04/20" "0031/03/20" "0028/02/20" "0031/01/20"
 [21] "0031/12/20" "0030/11/20" "0031/10/20" "0030/09/20" "0031/08/20"
 [26] "0031/07/20" "0030/06/20" "0031/05/20" "0030/04/20" "0031/03/20"
 [31] "0028/02/20" "0031/01/20" "0031/12/20" "0030/11/20" "0031/10/20"
 [36] "0030/09/20" "0031/08/20" "0031/07/20" "0030/06/20" "0031/05/20"

谢谢!

Answer 1

这里有两个步骤:

解析数据。您的示例不是完全可复制的，文件中的数据还是文本或因子变量中的变量？让我们假设后者，那么如果您将data.frame称为X，则可以执行

 X$newdate <- strptime(as.character(X$date), "%d/%m/%Y")

现在 newdate列应为 Date类型。

格式化数据。只需调用format()或strftime()即可:

 format(X$newdate, "%Y-%m-%d")

一个更完整的示例:

R> nzd <- data.frame(date=c("31/08/2011", "31/07/2011", "30/06/2011"), 
+                    mid=c(0.8378,0.8457,0.8147))
R> nzd
        date    mid
1 31/08/2011 0.8378
2 31/07/2011 0.8457
3 30/06/2011 0.8147
R> nzd$newdate <- strptime(as.character(nzd$date), "%d/%m/%Y")
R> nzd$txtdate <- format(nzd$newdate, "%Y-%m-%d")
R> nzd
        date    mid    newdate    txtdate
1 31/08/2011 0.8378 2011-08-31 2011-08-31
2 31/07/2011 0.8457 2011-07-31 2011-07-31
3 30/06/2011 0.8147 2011-06-30 2011-06-30
R> 

第三和第四列之间的区别在于类型: newdate是 Date类，而 txtdate是字符。