is_date: Test whether the input is a date

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Test whether the input is a date

Description

This function checks if a value is a date by attempting to convert it to a date format. The user can specify which date formats should be tested with the argument formats.

Usage

is_date(
  x,
  formats = c("%Y-%m-%d", "%y-%m-%d", "%m-%d-%Y", "%m-%d-%y", "%d-%m-%Y",
    "%d-%m-%y", "%Y/%m/%d", "%y/%m/%d", "%m/%d/%Y", "%m/%d/%y",
    "%d/%m/%Y", "%d/%m/%y", "%Y.%m.%d", "%y.%m.%d", "%m.%d.%Y",
    "%m.%d.%y", "%d.%m.%Y", "%d.%m.%y", "%d %b %Y", "%d %B %Y",
    "%b %d %Y", "%B %d %Y", "%b %d, %Y", "%B %d, %Y", "%d%b%Y",
    "%d%B%Y", "%Y%B%d", "%Y%b%d", "%b %Y", "%B %Y", "%b %y", "%B %y",
    "%m-%Y", "%Y-%m", "%m/%Y", "%Y/%m")
)

Arguments

x	A vector of values to be tested
formats	Date formats to be checked for (expressed in R date notation).

Value

Returns a logical vector indicating whether the values can be converted to any of the date formats provided. Notice that unless specified, the default allowed formats do not include simple year numbers (e.g. 2022 or 1993) because number vectors could wrongly be identified as dates. Also, notice that testing NA values will return FALSE.

See Also

find_timecol, find_keycol, is_country

Examples

is_date(c("2020-01-01","test",2020,"March 2030"))

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