Hi Farnoosh, Use ?as.Date() dat1<- read.table(text="V1 2012-01-12 08:23:00 2012-01-19 15:29:00",sep=",",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) dat1$V1<- as.Date(dat1$V1) ?dat1 #????????? V1 #1 2012-01-12 #2 2012-01-19 A.K. ________________________________ From: farnoosh sheikhi <farnoosh_81 at yahoo.com> To: "smartpink111 at yahoo.com" <smartpink111 at yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 1:38 AM Subject: Removing time and min from Date Hi Arun, I have a variable including time and date together like below. I want to just keep the date part (2012-01-12 ) and drop the hour and minutes. V1 2012-01-12 08:23:00 2012-01-19 15:29:00 Thanks a lot.?