title: Conversion of date format %B %Y
body: <p>Can we somehow convert dates such as <code>"November 2017", "December 2017"</code> to date? I tried to import csv data, but received factor columns.</p>
  
  <p>I tried the following code, but was not successful.</p>
  
  <pre><code>as.POSIXct(as.character(dat$Date), format = "%B %Y")
  </code></pre>