validate: Check that strings can be coerced to others

In mcneilco/racas: R Package for ACAS

Check that strings can be coerced to others

Description

Tests whether a string can be interpreted as given type

Usage

validateDate(inputValue, expectedFormat = "%Y-%m-%d",
  secondaryFormat = "%m/%d/%Y", errorEnv = NULL)

validateCharacter(inputValue, errorEnv = NULL)

validateNumeric(inputValue, errorEnv = NULL)

Arguments

inputValue	value that should able to become the type, usually a string
expectedFormat	a format.POSIXct that dates should be formatted as
secondaryFormat	a format.POSIXct that will not throw warnings, and is tested second
errorEnv	environment where errorList is stored

Details

NA will be allowed through, use other functions to check for NA

Value

validateDate a string date in the format expectedFormat

validateCharacter a string

validateNumeric a numeric

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