Re: Convert character to timeDate

["F. Lee De Cola" <ldecola@usgs.gov>]

TRY THIS:
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date.char <- c('20040102', '20040105', '20040106', '20040107', '20040108',
   '20040109')
timeDate(
  date.char,
  in.format = "%04Y%02m%02d",
  format    = "%04Y/%02m/%02d"
)
[1] 2004/01/02 2004/01/05 2004/01/06 2004/01/07 2004/01/08 2004/01/09
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Hi All,

I want to convert character series to timeDate format in order to create a
timeSeries object. The series is workdays without weekend. I am using
S-Plus Professional 6.1 (with Finmetrics). Or in Excel, how to convert?
Specifically,

20040102
20040105
20040106
20040107
20040108
20040109
....

to

2004/01/02
2004/01/05
2004/01/06
2004/01/07
2004/01/08
2004/01/09

Any thoughts? Thanks!