Convert Single Digit Month and Day to POSIXct

Question

Looking at time format specifiers I don't see any options for dates like 2/5/2010 (Month/Day/Year, single digit, no leading spaces). Are there any built in methods for converting dates in this format?

Answer 1

as.POSIXct('2/5/2010',format='%m/%d/%Y')

see ?strptime for formatting options.