parse_date_ymd: Parse date string without century

In svraka/asmisc: Miscellaneous Utility Functions

Parse date string without century

Description

Helper function to convert dates stored as strings containing six digits in a yymmdd format using lubridate::ymd().

Usage

parse_date_ymd(x, cutoff_2000 = 30L)

Arguments

x	A character vector of dates to parse.
cutoff_2000	integer. For y format, two-digit numbers smaller or equal to cutoff_2000 are parsed as though starting with 20, otherwise parsed as though starting with 19. Available only for functions relying on lubridates internal parser.

Details

cutoff_2000 defaults to 30 which is a convenient value for my work.

Value

A vector of class base::Date()

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