R Convert to date from multiple formats

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This is pretty much I wrote the anytime package for:

R> dates <- c("01-01-2017","02-01-2017","12-01-2016","20160901","20161001", 
+             "20161101")
R> library(anytime)
R> anydate(dates)
[1] "2017-01-01" "2017-02-01" "2016-12-01" "2016-09-01" 
[5] "2016-10-01" "2016-11-01"
R>

Parse any sane input reliably and without explicit format or origin or other line noise.

That being said, not starting ISO style with the year is asking for potential trouble, so 02-03-2017 could be February 3 or March 2. I am following the North American convention I too consider somewhat broken — but is so darn prevalent. Do yourself a favour and try to limit inputs to ISO dates, at least ISO order YYYYMMDD.

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