extractCleanDate: Format patent dates.

In kamilien1/patentr: A Toolbox for Analyzing Patent Data

Description

Create a clean year, month, day date.

Reading data in and aout of R may cause date mistakes, using a simple set function will ensure data types are the right format and class type. This data format is cleaned up to be in the format yyyy-mm-dd with no hours, minutes, seconds, or time zone attached.

Usage

extractCleanDate(dateVector, orders = "ymd")

Arguments

dateVector	A vector of character dates.
orders	The orders the dates appear in. Sumobrain is "ymd" and Lens.org and Google data are "mdy". Hardcoded values include googleDateOrder,lensDateOrder, and sumobrainDateOrder.

Value

A date vector of year, month, day dates.

Examples

acars$pubDate <- extractCleanDate(dateVector = acars$pubDate, orders = "ymd")

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