R remove character from date value

Question

I have a data.frame , with a typical date column goes like this: 29-Jan-14 ,...

However, some of the date values begin with a character T , they look like this: T29-Jan-14 ,...

How do I delete that T ?

Answer 1

Just use sub on the vector of "dates".

> sub("^T", "", "T29-Jan-14")
[1] "29-Jan-14"