date - How to extract month from a Year-Month (2017-10) type object in R?

Question

This object is in character format and i would like to avoid extracting the 10 by string based functions since it is very cumbersome. If there is a way through as.Date() and some particular format, i would be happy to use that

Answer 1

I've really been enjoying anydate from the anytime package lately.

Try this:

library(anytime)
format(anydate("2017-10"), "%m")