title: Turning date strings into usable date objects in R
body: <p>My strings look like:</p>
  
  <p><code>[1] "Sunday, April 10, 2016"     "Saturday, April 16, 2016"</code></p>
  
  <p>I would like to apply an algorithm in R so they each read something like this and have a Class POSIXlt or POSIXct:</p>
  
  <p><code>[1] "04/10/2016"         "04/16/2016"</code></p>
  
  <p>I tried to use <code>strptime</code> and <code>as.Date</code> functions, but I just cannot find a good way of doing this automatically without first removing the day of the week up front.</p>
  
  <p>Any and all solutions are appreciated! I know many of you are R gurus out there, and I would very much appreciate your help!</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>