toOrdinalDate: Convert date to ordinal calendar date
In CenterForAssessment/toOrdinal: Cardinal to Ordinal Number & Date Conversion

toOrdinalDate

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Convert date to ordinal calendar date

Description

Function for converting a calendar date to it long, ordinal version.

Usage

toOrdinalDate(
	date=NULL,
	language="English")

Arguments

`date`	Either NULL (the default which uses the current date returned via `Sys.date()` or a character string of the form `YYYY-MM-DD`.
`language`	OPTIONAL. Language (defaults to English) indicating what language rules to use in conversion to ordinal number.

Details

Typical use of the function is to call the function with any argument to get the current date in long, ordinal form. See examples.

Value

Function returns the character string with the long, ordinal calendar date.

Author(s)

Damian W. Betebenner dbetebenner@nciea.org

Examples

toOrdinalDate()
toOrdinalDate("2017-10-9") ## October 9th, 2017
toOrdinalDate("2017-10-09") ## October 9th, 2017
toOrdinalDate(c("2022-11-21", "2019-1-3", "1976-2-2", "1965-2-18"))
## "November 21st, 2022" "January 3rd, 2019" "February 2nd, 1976" "February 18th, 1965"

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