How to Change a dataframe column into datetime with Lubridate?

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So I have imported some data and the Date column as showed up as a character string and is formatted like "01.01.2019" for all 71,000 rows. I have used dmy() but it separates the Dates from the whole Data Frame. I need these dates for a graph, so it needs to be within the data frame. Help!!

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Simply add the new date vector to the data.frame

Let your data.frame be called mydata

mydata$newdate  <- dmy(mydata$Date)
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You are a blessing! Thank you!

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If things are working okay would you mark this thread as solved? Thanks
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200534577-Resetting-RStudio-Desktop-s-Statehttps://forum.posit.co/t/faq-how-do-i-mark-a-solution/5633

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