replace the characters ( '-' to '/' ) in date column in R

Replace Specific Characters in String in R

You can try this :

1. Using gsub() function

Syntax: gsub(character,new_character, string)

print(gsub("-", "/", "04-02-2022") )

the output will be like this

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2. Using str_replace_all() function

str_replace_all() is also a function that replaces the character with a particular character in a string. It will replace all occurrences of the character. It is available in stringr package. So, we need to install and load the package

install: install.packages("stringr")

load: library("stringr") 

Syntax: str_replace_all(string, “character”, “new_character”)

# load the stringr package
library("stringr")

print(str_replace_all("-", "/", "04-02-2022") )

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