validDate: validDate

In Epiconcept-Paris/STRAP-epiuf: Epiconcept Team Utility Functions for STRAP Project

validDate

Description

Description: Validates and converts date formats to standard R date format This function processes a character or a vector of characters to verify the date format and transform it into a standard R date format. If the format cannot be automatically determined, you can provide a format string as a parameter.

Usage

validDate(datevar, format = NULL, dropFuture = TRUE)

Arguments

datevar	A character vector to be converted into a Date vector.
format	An optional format string to use instead of the automatic system. Useful for complex formats.
dropFuture	Logical value. If TRUE and a 2 digit year in the futur (greater than system date), it will be placed in the past by substrating one century . Default is TRUE.

Value

A Date object or a vector of Date objects in standard R date format.

Author(s)

STRAP team [e-mail]

See Also

For more details see the link below to access the vignette: vignette("epiuf_package")

Examples

validDate("2023-05-25")
validDate(c("20221120","20210615","20210303","",NA))
validDate(c("05-25-2023", "26/05/2023"), format = "%m-%d-%Y")
validDate(datevar = "15/01/60",dropFuture = FALSE)

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