wareki2AD: Conversion from Japanese imperial year to Anno Domini

In Nippon: Japanese Utility Functions and Data

Description

wareki2AD calculates a year for Anno Domini from Japanese imperial year, which is widely used in official statistics and documents in Japan.

Usage

wareki2AD(year)

Arguments

year	vector of Japanese calender year as strings.

Details

year should include numeric strings as a halfwidth (hankaku) forms (aka ACSII). If you have fullwidth (zenkaku) figures in the numeric part of year, you need to convert them to halfwidth characters before using wareki2AD.

Noted that the supported the names of an era, “gengo”, inlcude “Meiji”, “Taisho”, “Showa”, and “Heisei” only.

Value

character

Author(s)

Susumu Tanimura [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
yr <- paste0(intToUtf8(c(24179,25104)), 20, intToUtf8(24180))
wareki2AD(yr)

## End(Not run)

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