cdate: fix censored dates

In renlund/dm: Data Management

Description

fix censored dates of the type '20110000' or '20110200' by selecting the midpoint of the censored time interval. If a lower bound is given, the midpoint between this point and the end of the censored interval is chosen.

Usage

cdate(
  x,
  sep = NULL,
  low.bound = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE,
  bound4all = FALSE,
  ignore.na = TRUE
)

Arguments

x	dates, possibly censored, as character or numeric (e.g. 20070101)
sep	separator in x, if any
low.bound	the lower bound
verbose	logical; print additional info, maybe
bound4all	logical (default FALSE); apply bound also to uncensored dates?
ignore.na	logical; ignore missing values in x?

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