date_to_dt_dttm: Coerce Date Argument to 'Date' or datetime

In jesse-smith/covidprod: Productivity Metrics for the COVID-19 Response Unit

Description

date_to_dt_dttm() will coerce the input to a scalar Date or datetime object if possible; if not, it will throw an error.

Usage

date_to_dt_dttm(date)

Arguments

date	An object to be coerced to Date or datetime

Details

date_to_dttm() returns a Date when:

• a string coercable to Date does not contain time information

• a numeric coerced to Date is closer to the current datetime than the same numeric coerced to datetime

date_to_dt_dttm() returns a datetime when:

• a string coercable to datetime contains time information

• a numeric coerced to datetime is closer to the current datetime than the same numeric coerced to Date

Value

A Date or datetime object, depending on the input

jesse-smith/covidprod documentation built on Oct. 11, 2021, 5:34 p.m.