pretty_date: Create a full date with an ordinal date

In West-End-Statistics/r-library-vakdr: Miscellanious helper functions

Description

This function is useful for formatting dates in reports - especially in the header of an Rmarkdown report. Default behavior uses today's date. See strptime for details on month and year code strings.

Usage

pretty_date(x = Sys.Date(), month_code = "%B", year_code = "%Y")

Arguments

x	a date object to convert to a string
month_code	the code used to format the month - defaults to full month name
year_code	the code used to format the year - defaults to full 4 digit year

Value

a length 1 character vector

Examples

# returns nice format for today's date
pretty_date()

pretty_date(as.Date('2020-03-01'))
# March 1st, 2020

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