opts_Date: Constructive options class 'Date'

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Constructive options class 'Date'

Description

These options will be used on objects of class 'date'.

Usage

opts_Date(
  constructor = c("as.Date", "as_date", "date", "new_date", "as.Date.numeric",
    "as_date.numeric", "next", "double"),
  ...,
  origin = "1970-01-01"
)

Arguments

constructor	String. Name of the function used to construct the object.
...	Additional options used by user defined constructors through the opts object
origin	Origin to be used, ignored when irrelevant.

Details

Depending on constructor, we construct the object as follows:

• "as.Date" (default): We wrap a character vector with as.Date(), if the date is infinite it cannot be converted to character and we wrap a numeric vector and provide an origin argument.

• "as_date" : Similar as above but using lubridate::as_date(), the only difference is that we never need to supply origin.

• "date" : Similar as above but using lubridate::date(), it doesn't support infinite dates so we fall back on lubridate::as_date() when we encounter them.

• "new_date" : We wrap a numeric vector with vctrs::new_date()

• "as.Date.numeric" : We wrap a numeric vector with as.Date() and use the provided origin

• "as_date.numeric" : Same as above but using lubridate::as_date() and use the provided origin

• "next" : Use the constructor for the next supported class. Call .class2() on the object to see in which order the methods will be tried.

• "double" : We define as an double vector and repair attributes

If the data is not appropriate for a constructor we fall back to another one appropriately.

Value

An object of class <constructive_options/constructive_options_Date>

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