Convert a date object into unix timestamp in R?

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Usually we see people converting unix-timestamps into date objects - is it possible to do the reverse instead?

For example, given the following date

12-02-2019 00:00:00

convert this into unix time achieving the following value:

1549929600

Is this possible within r? Potentially there could be something in lubridate or tidyverse but I have not figured it out yet. Thanks for the help.

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Found the answer as simply: 

as.numeric(as.POSIXct("12-02-2019 00:00:00 EST"))
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