filter_dates: Filter values to specified date range

In bgulbis/BGTools: Brian's Functions for Data Tidying and Analysis

Description

filter_dates filters data to within a specified time frame

Usage

filter_dates(data, criteria, prior.start = 0, after.end = 0,
  dtcols = c("datetime", "start.datetime", "stop.datetime"))

Arguments

data	A data frame with a date/time column called datetime
criteria	A data frame with start and stop date/time columns called start.datetime and end.datetime
prior.start	An optional numeric indicating number of days to go back prior to the start date/time, default is 0
after.end	An optional numeric indicating number of days after the end date/time to include, default is 0
dtcols	An optional vector of strings with the names of the columns to be used for filtering

Details

This function takes a data frame with a column called datetime and a data frame with columns called start.datetime and end.datetime, and filters the data to only include values within the specified time frame. Optionally, two additional parameters (prior.start and after.end) can be included to add additional time before or after the start or end date and time. Both data frames should include a pie.id column to use for joining.

Value

A data frame

bgulbis/BGTools documentation built on May 12, 2019, 8:21 p.m.