bdc_eventDate_empty: Identify records with empty event date

In brunobrr/bdc: Biodiversity Data Cleaning

Identify records with empty event date

Description

This function identifies records missing information on an event date (i.e., when a record was collected or observed).

Usage

bdc_eventDate_empty(data, eventDate = "eventDate")

Arguments

data	A data frame containing column with event date information.
eventDate	Numeric or date. The column with event date information.

Details

This test identifies records missing event date information (i.e., empty or not applicable NA).

Value

A data.frame containing the column ".eventDate_empty". Compliant (TRUE) if 'eventDate' is not empty; otherwise "FALSE".

See Also

Other time: bdc_year_from_eventDate(), bdc_year_outOfRange()

Examples

collection_date <- c(
  NA, "31/12/2015", "2013-06-13T00:00:00Z", "2013-06-20",
  "", "2013", "0001-01-00"
)
x <- data.frame(collection_date)

bdc_eventDate_empty(data = x, eventDate = "collection_date")

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