Convert integer to class Date

You can use ymd from lubridate

lubridate::ymd(v)
#[1] "2008-11-01"

Or anytime::anydate

anytime::anydate(v)
#[1] "2008-11-01"

as.character() would be the general way rather than use paste() for its side effect

> v <- 20081101
> date <- as.Date(as.character(v), format = "%Y%m%d")
> date
[1] "2008-11-01"

(I presume this is a simple example and something like this:

v <- "20081101"

isn't possible?)

Another way to get the same result:

date <- strptime(v,format="%Y%m%d")

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