Converting year and month (“yyyy-mm” format) to a date?

Since dates correspond to a numeric value and a starting date, you indeed need the day. If you really need your data to be in Date format, you can just fix the day to the first of each month manually by pasting it to the date:

month <- "2009-03"
as.Date(paste(month,"-01",sep=""))

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