convert_to_date: Convert many date and datetime formats as may be received...

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Convert many date and datetime formats as may be received from Microsoft Excel

Description

Convert many date and datetime formats as may be received from Microsoft Excel

Usage

convert_to_date(
  x,
  ...,
  character_fun = lubridate::ymd,
  string_conversion_failure = c("error", "warning")
)

convert_to_datetime(
  x,
  ...,
  tz = "UTC",
  character_fun = lubridate::ymd_hms,
  string_conversion_failure = c("error", "warning")
)

Arguments

x	The object to convert
...	Passed to further methods. Eventually may be passed to 'excel_numeric_to_date()', 'base::as.POSIXct()', or 'base::as.Date()'.
character_fun	A function to convert non-numeric-looking, non-NA values in 'x' to POSIXct objects.
string_conversion_failure	If a character value fails to parse into the desired class and instead returns 'NA', should the function return the result with a warning or throw an error?
tz	The timezone for POSIXct output, unless an object is POSIXt already. Ignored for Date output.

Details

Character conversion checks if it matches something that looks like a Microsoft Excel numeric date, converts those to numeric, and then runs convert_to_datetime_helper() on those numbers. Then, character to Date or POSIXct conversion occurs via 'character_fun(x, ...)' or 'character_fun(x, tz=tz, ...)', respectively.

Value

POSIXct objects for 'convert_to_datetime()' or Date objects for 'convert_to_date()'.

Functions

• convert_to_datetime(): Convert to a date-time (POSIXct)

See Also

Other Date-time cleaning: excel_numeric_to_date(), sas_numeric_to_date()

Examples

convert_to_date("2009-07-06")
convert_to_date(40000)
convert_to_date("40000.1")
# Mixed date source data can be provided.
convert_to_date(c("2020-02-29", "40000.1"))
convert_to_datetime(
  c("2009-07-06", "40000.1", "40000", NA),
  character_fun=lubridate::ymd_h, truncated=1, tz="UTC"
)

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