reformat_date: Recognize dates formatted as 8 consecutive integers and...

In ftwkoopmans/msdap: Mass Spectrometry Downstream Analysis Pipeline

Recognize dates formatted as 8 consecutive integers and rewrite them as "-" delimited

Description

If input array of strings are all encoding exactly 8 integers, test if each represents a valid dates. If so, add separation chars.

Usage

reformat_date(x)

Arguments

x	array of strings representing dates, see examples

Details

Implementation is intentionally simplified, only needs to catch most obvious cases (so ignore potential dates denoted as 6 numbers, etc.) Hardcoded "oldest year" is 1990, serves our use-case and adds robustness (we use this function in a scenario where any set of numbers can be supplied, but experiment samples are note likely 20+ years old) For ambiguous dates, e.g. 20102010 (20-10-2010 or 2010-20-10), prioritize year YYYYxxzz over xxzzYYYY

examples; reformat_date(x = c("20200220", "20200221")) reformat_date(x = c("20202002", "20202102")) reformat_date(x = c("11012002", "11022002"))

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