Training: Date mutating to NA

##EXAMPLE R SCRIPT FOR REPREX
# install and load packages
pacman::p_load(rio, janitor,datapasta,reprex, tidyverse, here)

# import data
surv_raw <- data.frame(
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  check.names = FALSE,
  case_id = c("694928", "86340d", "92d002", "544bd1", "6056ba"),
  sex = c("m", "f", "f", "f", "f"),
  `onset date` = c("11/9/2014","10/30/2014",
                   "8/16/2014","8/29/2014","10/20/2014")
)

# try to convert column to class "Date"
surv_clean <- surv_raw %>% 
  clean_names() %>% 
  mutate(onset_date = ymd(onset_date))
#> Warning: There was 1 warning in `mutate()`.
#> ℹ In argument: `onset_date = ymd(onset_date)`.
#> Caused by warning:
#> ! All formats failed to parse. No formats found.

# check the CLEANED date column class and date range
class(surv_clean$onset_date)
#> [1] "Date"
range(surv_clean$onset_date)
#> [1] NA NA

Created on 2024-03-12 with reprex v2.1.0

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Hi Margaret,

Please see the following thread for a solution to this problem: Exercise for R Training course: Unexpected NA value in date column - #2 by machupovirus

All the best,

Tim