ToDateCleaner: Invalid date string parsing

In phively/wranglR: R Data Wrangler

Description

This function is a wrapper for ToDate that takes a character string of integers of length 4 to 8 and attempts to parse out a valid date.

Usage

ToDateCleaner(
  datestring,
  method = "ymd",
  fallback_mo = 1,
  fallback_day = 1,
  debug = FALSE
)

Arguments

datestring	Numeric string of length 1-8 to interpret
method	Position of year, month, day values within the string. Currently ONLY ymd is supported!
fallback_mo	Month number to insert, if necessary
fallback_day	Day number to insert, if necessary
debug	If TRUE, print debug output

Examples

weird_dates <- c('20200101', '2020', '20201', '202001', '20200000'
, '2020001', '20200001', '20200199')

# ToDate returns errors
# But ToDateCleaner attempts to fix the invalid date strings
ToDateCleaner(weird_dates)

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