Exploring R Date Format Complexities

Exploring R Date Format Complexities

Key Points  R date format is a skill that can help you handle one of the most common and important data types in any data analysis project. R has a special class for representing dates called the date class. It stores dates as the number of days since January 1st, 1970. You can format, convert, manipulate, visualize, and work with dates in R using various packages and functions, such as lubridate, ggplot2, readr, etc. You can also handle time zones, daylight saving time, and date and time data from different sources in R using functions such as with_tz(), dst(), as.POSIXct(), etc. Package Function Description base as.Date() Converts a string or a numeric value to a date object Date() Creates a date object from year, month, and day values as.character() Converts a date object to a character string