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pendulum

Time classes for R, w/ time mocking capability via timefuzz

Why? - Some programming languages support monkey patching. However, R does not officially allow this (there's a way to do it, but it's a hack). Therefore, the only way that I can think of to "mock time" is to use a different set of time classes/objects. That is, we can't just mock time using Sys.Date() directly as there's no way to monkey patch the code behind that function. Some may say it's good that R doesn't officially support monkey patching; there's definitely upsides; but a downside is that mocking things like time becomes difficult.

clock() is designed for setting a specific time
now() is designed for getting the current time AND is mockable
sys_time() and sys_date() are drop in replacements for Sys.time() and Sys.Date() AND are mockable

See the docs to get started: https://docs.ropensci.org/pendulum/

remotes::install_github("ropensci/pendulum")

library(pendulum)

Please report any issues or bugs.
License: MIT
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