bde_parse_dates: Parse dates

In tidyBdE: Download Data from Bank of Spain

Parse dates

Description

This function is tailored for the date formatting used in this package, so it may fail if used with other datasets. See Examples for checking which formats would be considered.

Date Formats

FREQUENCY	FORMAT	EXAMPLES
Daily / Business day	DD MMMMYYYY	02 FEB2019
Monthly	MMM YYYY	MAR 2020
Quarterly	MMM YYYY, where MMM is the first or the last month of the quarter, depending on the value of its variable OBSERVED.	For the first quarter of 2020: ENE 2020, MAR 2020
Half-yearly	MMM YYYY, where MMM is the first or the last month of the halfyear period, depending on the value of its variable OBSERVED.	For the first half of 2020: ENE 2020, JUN 2020
Annual	YYYY	2020

Usage

bde_parse_dates(dates_to_parse)

Arguments

dates_to_parse

Dates to parse

Details

Tries to parse strings representing dates using as.Date()

Value

A Date object.

See Also

as.Date()

Examples

# Formats parsed
would_parse <- c(
  "02 FEB2019", "15 ABR 1890", "MAR 2020", "ENE2020",
  "2020", "12-1993", "01-02-2014", "01/02/1990"
)

parsed_ok <- bde_parse_dates(would_parse)

class(parsed_ok)

tibble::tibble(raw = would_parse, parsed = parsed_ok)

#-----------------------------------

# Formats not admitted
wont_parse <- c("JAN2001", "2010-01-12", "01 APR 2017", "01/31/1990")

parsed_fail <- bde_parse_dates(wont_parse)

class(parsed_fail)

tibble::tibble(raw = wont_parse, parsed = parsed_fail)

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