title: How to Convert Chr to Date in R Using Lubridate (month.day)?
body: <p>Hi I have a data frame (<code>df</code>) that looks like:</p>
  <pre><code>Date
  Jun.1
  Jan.1
  Jul.3
  Mar.1
  </code></pre>
  <p>It's a character type.</p>
  <p>Trying to use the lubridate package to convert to a date type. However, the closest thing I can find is <code>mdy</code> which converts when the format is e.g. January 31st, 2017.</p>
  <p>So, I tried to replace all the '.' to '' using <code>gsub('.', '', df$date)</code>, but this just returns NAs.</p>
  <p>Any advice?</p>