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2016 Aug 31
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New strptime conversion specification for ordinal suffixes
As touched on briefly on SO <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39237299>,
base R has what appears to me to be a serious deficiency in its inability
to recognize dates formatted as character strings with ordinal suffixes:
ord_dates <- c("September 1st, 2016", "September 2nd, 2016",
"September 3rd, 2016", "September 4th, 2016")
?strptime lists no conversion specification which could match ord_dates in
one pass (as I discovered, even lubridate only manages to succeed by...