Parse the birth dates of the Beatles in the following table, and format them in the form AbbreviatedWeekday DayOfMonth AbbreviatedMonthName TwoDigitYear (for example, “Wed 09 Oct 40”). Store the formatted birth dates in an object called Beatle_BD.

 

Beatle	Birth date
Ringo Starr	1940-07-07
John Lennon	1940-10-09
Paul McCartney	1942-06-18
George Harrison	1943-02-25

 

(from: Cotton, 2013, Learning R, O’Reilly)