filter_multiple_dates: Filter a data.frame for multiple dates
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View source: R/filter_mulitple_dates.R

Filter a data.frame for multiple time periods

1	filter_multiple_dates(x, date_var, date_list, use_names = T)

`x`	a data.frame
`date_var`	chr string of the name for the datetime column
`date_list`	a list of dates in the format of c(start, end). Dates will be used to filter `data.frame`, inclusive. Dates must be in `POSIXct` format.
`use_names`	logical If `TRUE` a new column will be added to label events based on names assigned to elements in `date_list`

This function allows the user to filter a single data.frame for multiple time periods.

Returns a data.frame

Julie Padilla

## Not run: 
df <- data.frame(datetime = seq(from = as.POSIXct('2000-01-01')
, to = as.POSIXct('2000-02-01'), by = 'hour')
, value = rnorm(745))

events <- lapply(list(c('2000-01-02 0:00', '2000-01-02 05:00')
, c('2000-01-04 0:00', '2000-01-04 05:00')), as.POSIXct)

filter_multiple_dates(df, date_var = 'datetime', date_list = events, use_names = F)

## End(Not run)