I would like to retain my current date column in year-month format as date. It currently gets converted to chr format. I have tried as_datetime but it coerces all values to NA. The format I am looking for is: "2017-01"
library(lubridate)
df<- data.frame(Date=c("2017-01-01","2017-01-02","2017-01-03","2017-01-04",
"2018-01-01","2018-01-02","2018-02-01","2018-03-02"),
N=c(24,10,13,12,10,10,33,45))
df$Date <- as_datetime(df$Date)
df$Date <- ymd(df$Date)
df$Date <- strftime(df$Date,format="%Y-%m")
Thanks in advance!
Answer
lubridate only handle dates, and dates have days. However, as alistaire mentions, you can floor them by month of you want work monthly:
library(tidyverse)
df_month <-
df %>%
mutate(Date = floor_date(as_date(Date), "month"))
If you e.g. want to aggregate by month, just group_by() and summarize().
df_month %>%
group_by(Date) %>%
summarize(N = sum(N)) %>%
ungroup()
#> # A tibble: 4 x 2
#> Date N
#> <date> <dbl>
#>1 2017-01-01 59
#>2 2018-01-01 20
#>3 2018-02-01 33
#>4 2018-03-01 45