formatDate: Format a date.

In TalhoukLab/biostatUtil: Utility Functions Used in Biostatistics Projects

Format a date.

Description

Prints a date into a pretty format.

Usage

formatDate(
  d,
  m,
  y,
  date.format = c("MM.DD.YYYY", "MMM.DD.YYYY", "DD.MM.YYYY", "DD.MMM.YYYY", "YYYY.MM.DD",
    "YYYY.MMM.DD"),
  sep = "/"
)

Arguments

d	day of the month (1-31)
m	month of the year (1-12)
y	year of date
date.format	how to format the date. Defaults to "month/day/year".
sep	string used to separate d, m, and y. Defaults to "/".

Details

Given the day, month, and year of a date, returns the date in a specific format. The order and separating string can be modified using date.format and sep respectively. Take note the order of the arguments: day, month, and year. Only accepts "MM.DD.YYYY", "MMM.DD.YYYY", "DD.MM.YYYY", "DD.MMM.YYYY", "YYYY.MM.DD", "YYYY.MMM.DD".

Value

A character string of a formatted date.

Author(s)

Samuel Leung, Derek Chiu

See Also

Other date formatting functions: chr_to_date(), cleanDate(), getFormat(), numericToDate()

Examples

formatDate(8, 7, 2011)
formatDate(8, 7, 2011, date.format = "YYYY.MM.DD")
formatDate(8, 7, 2011, date.format = "DD.MM.YYYY", sep = "-")
formatDate(10, 1, 2015, date.format = "MMM.DD.YYYY", sep = "-")

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