'Turning date into integers in R
I have a data frame in R and I have a month column and a day column containing characters like "jan", "feb", or "mar" for months or "mon", "tue" or "wed" for days. I would like to find a way to convert both columns into integers ranging from 1 to 12 for months and 1 to 7 for days. I have tried built-in functions like month.abb but when I try using match with the column for months it just returns a list of NA. Thank you very much for your help !
Solution 1:[1]
Use match:
match(c("jan", "feb", "may"), tolower(month.abb))
match(c("mon", "tue", "thur"), c("mon", "tue", "wed", "thur", "fri", "sat", "sun"))
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