日付(Date) → 文字列(character)はstrftime 関数

関数名覚えられないマン。

> today <- Sys.Date()
> class(today)
[1] "Date"
> today
[1] "2015-12-26"
> strftime(today, format="%Y%m%d")
[1] "20151226"
> class(strftime(today, format="%Y%m%d"))
[1] "character"