tests/testthat/test_fix_dates.R

test_that("fix_dates works for a series of malformed dates", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  bad.dates <- data.frame(
    id = seq(7),
    some.dates = c(
      "02/05/92",
      "01-04-2020",
      "1996/05/01",
      "2020-05-01",
      "02-04-96",
      "2015",
      "Sept 2009"
    ),
    some.more.dates = c(
      "02/05/00",
      "05/1990",
      "2012-08",
      "apr-21",
      "mar-65",
      "feb 84",
      "5 sept 2021"
    )
  )

  fixed.df <- fix_dates(bad.dates, c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"))

  expected.df <- data.frame(
    id = seq(7),
    some.dates = c(
      "1992-05-02",
      "2020-04-01",
      "1996-05-01",
      "2020-05-01",
      "1996-04-02",
      "2015-07-01",
      "2009-09-01"
    ),
    some.more.dates = c(
      "2000-05-02",
      "1990-05-01",
      "2012-08-01",
      "2021-04-01",
      "1965-03-01",
      "1984-02-01",
      "2021-09-05"
    )
  )
  expected.df$some.dates <- as.Date(expected.df$some.dates)
  expected.df$some.more.dates <- as.Date(expected.df$some.more.dates)
  expect_equal(fixed.df, expected.df)
})

test_that("returns error for dates that are malformed beyond auto fix", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  bad.dates <- data.frame(
    id = seq(9),
    some.dates = c(
      "02/05/92",
      "01-04-2020",
      "1996/05/01",
      "2020-05-01",
      "02-04-96",
      "2015",
      "02/05/00",
      "05/1990",
      "20125/02"
    )
  )
  expect_error(fix_dates(bad.dates, "some.dates"), "unable to tidy a date")
})

test_that("Handle empty dates correctly", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  really.bad.dataframe <- data.frame(
    id = seq(2),
    some.dates = c(NA, "")
  )
  fixed.df <- fix_dates(really.bad.dataframe, "some.dates")

  expected.df <- data.frame(
    id = seq(2),
    some.dates = c(NA, NA)
  )
  expected.df$some.dates <- as.Date(expected.df$some.dates)

  expect_equal(fixed.df, expected.df)
})

test_that("error if unexpected data type", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  exvector <- c(1, 2, 3)
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(exvector, "some.dates"),
    "df should be a dataframe object!"
  )

  expect_error(
    fix_dates(data.frame(), 3),
    "col.names should be a character vector!"
  )
})

test_that("error if day.impute or month.impute are wrong format", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  exvector <- c(1, 2, 3)
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(exvector, "some.dates"),
    "df should be a dataframe object!"
  )

  expect_error(
    fix_dates(data.frame(), 3),
    "col.names should be a character vector!"
  )
  bad.dates <- data.frame(
    id = seq(6),
    some.dates = c(
      "02/05/92",
      "01-04-2020",
      "1996/05/01",
      "2020-05-01",
      "02-04-96",
      "2015"
    ),
    some.more.dates = c(
      "02/05/00",
      "05/1990",
      "2012-08",
      "apr-21",
      "mar-65",
      "feb 84"
    )
  )

  expect_error(
    fix_dates(bad.dates,
      c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"),
      day.impute = 35
    ),
    "day.impute should be an integer between 1 and 31\n"
  )
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(bad.dates,
      c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"),
      day.impute = 2.2
    ),
    "day.impute should be an integer\n"
  )
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(bad.dates,
      c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"),
      month.impute = 13
    ),
    "month.impute should be an integer between 1 and 12\n"
  )
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(bad.dates,
      c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"),
      month.impute = 2.2
    ),
    "month.impute should be an integer\n"
  )
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(bad.dates,
      c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"),
      month.impute = "apr"
    ),
    "month.impute should be an integer between 1 and 12\n"
  )
})

test_that("error if day.impute or month.impute are in wrong format", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  temp <- data.frame(example = "1994")

  expect_equal(
    fix_dates(temp, "example", month.impute = 11),
    data.frame(example = as.Date("1994-11-01"))
  )
})

test_that("Error if month out of bounds", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  temp <- data.frame(id = 1, date = "13-1994")

  expect_error(
    fix_dates(temp, "date"),
    "Month not in expected range \n"
  )
})

test_that("Imputing day with NA results in NA", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  temp <- data.frame(id = 1, date = "04-1994")
  expect_warning(
    date.guess <- fix_dates(temp, "date", day.impute = NA),
    "NA imputed for subject 1 \\(date: 04\\-1994\\)"
  )
  expect_equal(date.guess, data.frame(id = 1, date = as.Date(NA)))
})


test_that("Imputing month with NA results in NA", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  temp <- data.frame(id = 1, date = "1994")
  expect_warning(
    date.guess <- fix_dates(temp, "date", month.impute = NA),
    "NA imputed for subject 1 \\(date: 1994\\)"
  )
  expect_equal(
    date.guess,
    data.frame(id = 1, date = as.Date(NA))
  )
})


test_that("Error if imputing month with NULL", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  temp <- data.frame(id = 1, date = "1994")
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(temp, "date", month.impute = NULL),
    "Missing month with no imputation value given \n"
  )
})

test_that("Error if imputing day with NULL", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  temp <- data.frame(id = 1, date = "07-1994")
  expect_error(
    fix_dates(temp, "date", day.impute = NULL),
    "Missing day with no imputation value given \n"
  )
})


test_that("fix_dates works for a mdy format", {
  withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
  bad.dates <- data.frame(
    id = seq(6),
    some.dates = c(
      "05/02/92",
      "04-01-2020",
      "1996/05/01",
      "2020-01-05",
      "04-02-96",
      "2015"
    ),
    some.more.dates = c(
      "05/02/00",
      "05/1990",
      "2012-08",
      "apr-21",
      "mar-65",
      "feb 84"
    )
  )

  fixed.df <- fix_dates(bad.dates,
    c("some.dates", "some.more.dates"),
    format = "mdy"
  )

  expected.df <- data.frame(
    id = seq(6),
    some.dates = c(
      "1992-05-02",
      "2020-04-01",
      "1996-05-01",
      "2020-01-05",
      "1996-04-02",
      "2015-07-01"
    ),
    some.more.dates = c(
      "2000-05-02",
      "1990-05-01",
      "2012-08-01",
      "2021-04-01",
      "1965-03-01",
      "1984-02-01"
    )
  )
  expected.df$some.dates <- as.Date(expected.df$some.dates)
  expected.df$some.more.dates <- as.Date(expected.df$some.more.dates)
  expect_equal(fixed.df, expected.df)
})

test_that("fix_dates is deprecated", {
  bad.dates <- data.frame(
    id = seq(7),
    some.dates = c(
      "02/05/92",
      "01-04-2020",
      "1996/05/01",
      "2020-05-01",
      "02-04-96",
      "2015",
      "Sept 2009"
    ),
    some.more.dates = c(
      "02/05/00",
      "05/1990",
      "2012-08",
      "apr-21",
      "mar-65",
      "feb 84",
      "5 sept 2021"
    )
  )
  expect_snapshot(fix_dates(bad.dates, c("some.dates", "some.more.dates")))
})

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