Convert YYYY-mm-dd to day of the week format in R

Question

How to convert this date format 2017-11-01 into name of day of the week i.e.Wednesday, using R?

`weekdays(as.Date('2017-11-01'))` – Sotos Nov 01 '17 at 14:56 — Sotos, Nov 01 '17 at 14:56

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '17 at 14:57

4

> format(as.Date('2017-11-01'), '%A')
[1] "Wednesday"

answered Nov 01 '17 at 14:57

Mouad_Seridi

how do it my dataset? dataset$month format(as.Date('dataset$month'), '%A') right? – j.due Nov 01 '17 at 15:02
1

you have to specify the format of your column, if it's `Date` then you just do `my_data$my_new_column – Mouad_Seridi Nov 01 '17 at 15:03

1 Answers1