parse.date: .parse.date

In decisionpatterns/date.reader: This packages extends type.convert and read.table to automatically detect and coerce date fields to POSIX.

Description

.parse.date

Usage

.parse.date(txt, format, tz = getOption("date.reader")$tz,
  check.regex = TRUE)

Arguments

txt	character; value to convert to a POSIX date
format	character; name of the format, e.g. "MDY"
tz	character; optional time zone
check.regex	Logical; if TRUE, check syntax of txt before calling lubridate function.

Value

POSIXct object representing a date (or datetime), or NA if the input cannot be parsed.

Note

Internal function, a wrapper for lubridate functions

See Also

as.POSIXct

Examples

## Not run: 
   .parse.date( "January 11, 2014", "MDY" )
   .parse.date( "2014/02/16", "YMD" )
   .parse.date( "2014-08-05", "YMD" )
   .parse.date( "20140805", "ymd.numeric")
   .parse.date( "14/08/05", "ymd.alt")
  
## End(Not run)

decisionpatterns/date.reader documentation built on May 15, 2019, 1:55 a.m.