year: Generate Random Vector of Years

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Generate Random Vector of Years

Description

Generate a random vector of years.

Usage

year(
  n,
  x = 1996:as.numeric(format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")),
  prob = NULL,
  name = "Year"
)

Arguments

n	The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within the environment of r_data_frame or r_list.
x	A vector of elements to chose from.
prob	A vector of probabilities to chose from.
name	The name to assign to the output vector's varname attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when used inside of r_data_frame or r_list.

Value

Returns a random vector of year elements.

See Also

Other variable functions: age(), animal(), answer(), area(), car(), children(), coin(), color(), date_stamp(), death(), dice(), dna(), dob(), dummy(), education(), employment(), eye(), grade(), grade_level(), group(), hair(), height(), income(), internet_browser(), iq(), language, level(), likert(), lorem_ipsum(), marital(), military(), month(), name, normal(), political(), race(), religion(), sat(), sentence(), sex(), sex_inclusive(), smokes(), speed(), state(), string(), upper(), valid(), zip_code()

Examples

year(10)
pr <- probs(length(1996:2016))
pie(table(year(10000, x= 1996:2016, prob = pr)))

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