Strptime from factor variable in wrong format
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I am trying to use strptime() to parse dates from a factor variable--but there is a catch.  My dates (incorrectly) list the days and the month as SINGLE rather than DOUBLE DIGITS. For example, my date would say: 5/5/2012 14:02 instead of 05/05/2012 14:02. 

Thus, NA values are returned when I run the code: 

    strptime(var,"%m/%d/%y %H:%M")

Is there a fix?