How to convert to Unix timestamp in R

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How to covert this following timestamp

Blockquote
Fri Mar 27 12:01:01 2020
to Unixtimestamp.

or other way around.

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Here are conversions in both directions.

as.POSIXct("Fri Mar 27 12:01:01 2020", format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
[1] "2020-03-27 12:01:01 MDT"
 
DATETIME <- lubridate::ymd_hms("2020-03-27 12:23:01")
 
format(DATETIME,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
[1] "Fri Mar 27 12:23:01 2020"
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But what if the read time format into table
**** "Fri Mar 27 12:01:01 2020"**
is of type character()
The following table has column (stratPtime)

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If I use this

as.POSIXct("Fri Mar 27 12:01:01 2020", format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")

I get NA in stratPtime column.

this image shows the NA in stratPtime column
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4

Please post the output of

dput(head(DF))

where you replace DF with the name of your data frame. I can then work with a sample of your actual data.

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df_test$startPtime <- as.numeric(strptime(df_test$startPtime, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"))

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