getDates: Filter environmental monitoring stations by active date(s)
In metScanR: Find, Map, and Gather Environmental Data and Metadata

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Return metadata of environmental monitoring stations that were/are active during specified dates.

1	getDates(startDate, endDate, includeUnk = FALSE, ...)

`startDate`	(character) "YYYY-MM-DD" used to filter start dates of environmental stations within the metScanR database. Optional if `endDate` is initialized. Required if `endDate` is missing.
`endDate`	(character) "YYYY-MM-DD" used to filter end dates of environmental stations within the metScanR database. Optional if `startDate` is initialized. Required if `startDate` is missing.
`includeUnk`	(logical) Defaults to FALSE and excludes sites with unknown start dates. Setting to TRUE will include sites with unknown start dates. Sites with unknown start dates account for ~71 percent of the metScanR database. This is a result of undocumented, government (or network/governing body) metadata. Nearly all stations within the database have a known end date, however. Initializing endDate (while leaving startDate uninitialized) and setting includeUnk=TRUE will more than likely return results than if startDate is also initialized.
`...`	auto-populates when called from `siteFinder()` wrapper

A list comprising metadata of environmental monitoring sites that were/are active between the startDate and/or endDate

Josh Roberti jaroberti87@gmail.com
Lee Stanish

see reference links above

siteFinder mapResults metScanR_DB

## Not run: 
#return metadata of sites that were active from at least 1940-01-01 through 1970-04-18
  getDates(startDate="1940-01-01",endDate = "1970-04-18")
#return metadata of sites that were active up through at least 1950-07-08
  getDates(endDate = "1950-07-08")
#return metadata of sites that were active up through at least 1950-07-08
#and have an unknown start date:
  getDates(endDate = "1950-07-08", includeUnk=TRUE)
## End(Not run)