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R function: strptime

strptime converts a character vector into a POSIXlt class.
strftime does the opposite. 
dt_str <- "May 4 2016"

dummy <- Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "en_US.UTF-8")

#
# See ?strptime for a list of %-modifiers
#
dt_    <- strptime(dt_str, "%b %e %Y")

class(dt_)
# [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt"

dt_
# [1] "2016-05-04 CEST"
Github repository about-r, path: /functions/strptime.R

See also

Index to (some) R functions
The function strptime of the Python standard library datetime.

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