date_to_period_month: Convert dates to one-month periods

In johnrbryant/demprep: Prepare Demographic Data

Description

Assign dates to one-month periods.

Usage

date_to_period_month(date)

Arguments

date	Dates of events or measurements. A vector of class Date, or a vector than can be coerced to class Date via function as.Date.

Value

A factor with the same length as date.

See Also

The output from date_to_period_month is often processed further using format_period_month.

Other functions for creating periods from dates are date_to_period_year and and date_to_period_quarter.

Other functions for creating one-month units from dates are date_to_age_month, date_to_cohort_month, and date_to_triangle_month. The interface for date_to_period_month is identical to that of date_to_cohort_month.

Examples

date_to_period_month(date = c("2024-03-27",
                              "2020-01-03",
                              "2022-11-09"))

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