testCharacterDate: testCharacterDate
In JerryHMartin/EmissionsHelper: Emissions Modeling Support Functions Package

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

View source: R/testCharacterDate.R

This function is intended to test a characters date that was recently converted from a text file.

1 2	testCharacterDate(characterDate, testUpperLimit = 100, testPercentPositive = 50)

`characterDate`	the date and or time an event occured
`testUpperLimit`	number of tests to perform to validate
`testPercentPositive`	percent positive to confirm one date type

It can extract features about the date using regular expressions

This function assumes the dateSeparator is "-", ".", or "/"

format = "american" ... date order is (1) mm (2) day (3) year format = "british" ... date order is (1) day (2) mm (3) year format = "international" ... date order is (1) year (2) mm (3) day

This function outputs a list of named parameters

dateSeparator - character used to separate dates dateTimeSeparator - chacters used to separate date and time american - is this american formatted date british - is this a British formatted date international - is this an internationl formatted date fullYear - is a full year given partialYear - is a partial year given withTime - is the time given withoutTime - is time not given formatStyle - American, British, International, or Unknown yearFormat - Full or Partial timePresent - is the time given

 
 testCharacterDate("2018-01-05 13:45:01")
 testCharacterDate("2018/04/30 15:07:41")
 testCharacterDate("2018/04/30 15:07")
 
 
 # This date outputs an unknown format style because the
 # American and British styles can become confused.   
 testCharacterDate("01-01-2010 12:00:00")