get_age: Calculate age

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Calculate age

Description

Takes two Date objects and calculates age based on difftime (in days) divided by 365.2425 days per year (for age in years) or 30.4375 days per month (for age in months).

Usage

get_age(birthdate, current_date, units = c("years", "months"))

Arguments

birthdate	Date object giving the date of birth
current_date	Date object giving the date from which age is to be calculated
units	The units in which age should be reported

Value

Numeric value giving age in the specified units.

Examples

get_age(as.Date("2000-01-01"), Sys.Date(), "years")

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