Package ‘date’
January 31, 2023
Version 1.2-42
Title Functions for Handling Dates
Description Functions for handling dates.
Imports graphics
License GPL-2
NeedsCompilation yes
Author Terry Therneau [aut] (S original),
Thomas Lumley [trl] (R port),
Kjetil Halvorsen [trl] (R port),
Kurt Hornik [trl, aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-9911>, R
port),
R Core Team [ctb]
Maintainer Kurt Hornik <
[email protected]>
Repository CRAN
Date/Publication 2023-01-31 13:10:40 UTC
R topics documented:
as.date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
date.ddmmmyy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
date.mdy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
date.mmddyy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
date.mmddyyyy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
date.object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
mdy.date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Index 8
1
2 as.date
as.date Coerce Data to Dates
Description
Converts any of the following character forms to a Julian date: 8/31/56, 8-31-1956, 31 8 56, 083156,
31Aug56, or August 31 1956.
Usage
as.date(x, order = "mdy", ...)
Arguments
x input data vector.
order if x is character, defines the order in which the terms are assumed to appear in a
xx/xx/xx date. The default is month/day/year; any permutation of mdy is legal.
... if x is character, then any other arguments from mdy.date() can be used as well.
Details
If x is numeric, then floor(x) is returned, e.g., as.date(35) is the same as as.date(35.2) and
gives February 5, 1960 (‘5Feb60’). If x is character, the program attempts to parse it.
Value
For each date, the number of days between it and January 1, 1960. The date will be missing if the
string is not interpretable.
See Also
mdy.date, date.mmddyy, date.ddmmmyy
Examples
as.date(c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960"))
date.ddmmmyy 3
date.ddmmmyy Format a Julian date
Description
Given a vector of Julian dates, this returns them in the form “10Nov89”, “28Jul54”, etc.
Usage
date.ddmmmyy(sdate)
Arguments
sdate A vector of Julian dates, e.g., as returned by mdy.date().
Value
A vector of character strings containing the formatted dates.
See Also
mdy.date, date.mdy
Examples
date.ddmmmyy(1:10)
date.mdy Convert from Julian Dates to Month, Day, and Year
Description
Convert a vector of Julian dates to a list of vectors with the corresponding values of month, day and
year, and optionally weekday.
Usage
date.mdy(sdate, weekday = FALSE)
Arguments
sdate a Julian date value, as returned by mdy.date(), number of days since 1/1/1960.
weekday if TRUE, then the returned list also will contain the day of the week (Sunday=1,
Saturday=7).
4 date.mmddyy
Value
A list with components month, day, and year.
References
Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T., and Flannery, B. P. (1992). Numerical Recipes:
The Art of Scientific Computing (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press.
Examples
day <- 7
temp <- date.mdy(mdy.date(month = 7, day = day, year = 1960))
## Check for illegal dates, such as 29 Feb in a non leap year
if (temp$day != day) {
cat("Some illegal dates\n")
} else {
cat("All days are legal\n")
}
date.mmddyy Format a Julian date
Description
Given a vector of Julian dates, this returns them in the form “10/11/89”, “28/7/54”, etc.
Usage
date.mmddyy(sdate, sep = "/")
Arguments
sdate A vector of Julian dates, e.g., as returned by mdy.date().
sep Character string used to separate the month, day, and year portions of the re-
turned string.
Value
A vector of character strings containing the formatted dates.
See Also
date.mdy, mdy.date, date.ddmmmyy
Examples
date.mmddyy(as.date(10))
date.mmddyyyy 5
date.mmddyyyy Format a Julian date
Description
Given a vector of Julian dates, this returns them in the form “10/11/1989”, “28/7/1854”, etc.
Usage
date.mmddyyyy(sdate, sep = "/")
Arguments
sdate A vector of Julian dates, e.g., as returned by mdy.date().
sep Character string used to separate the month, day, and year portions of the re-
turned string.
Value
A vector of character strings containing the formatted dates.
See Also
date.mdy, mdy.date, date.ddmmmyy
Examples
date.mmddyyyy(as.date(1:10))
date.object Date Objects
Description
Objects of class "date".
Usage
is.date(x)
Arguments
x any R object.
6 mdy.date
Details
Dates are stored as the number of days since 1/1/1960, and are kept in integer format. (This is the
same baseline value as is used by SAS). The numerical methods for dates treat date - date as a
numeric, and date +- numeric as a date.
is.date returns TRUE if x has class "date", and FALSE otherwise. Its behavior is unaffected by any
attributes of x; for example, x could be a date array (in contrast to the behavior of is.vector).
as.date returns x if x is a simple object of class "date", and otherwise a date vector of the same
length as x and with data resulting from coercing the elements of x to class "date". See the manual
page for as.date() for details.
Logical operations as well as the numeric functions exp(), log(), and so on are invalid.
Other methods exist for missing value, as.character(), printing, and summarizing.
See Also
date.mdy, mdy.date, date.ddmmmyy, as.date.
mdy.date Convert to Julian Dates
Description
Given a month, day, and year, returns the number of days since January 1, 1960.
Usage
mdy.date(month, day, year, nineteen = TRUE, fillday = FALSE,
fillmonth = FALSE)
Arguments
month vector of months.
day vector of days.
year vector of years.
nineteen if TRUE, year values between 0 and 99 are assumed to be in the 20th century
A.D.; otherwise, if FALSE, they are assumed to be in the 1st century A.D.
fillday if TRUE, then missing days are replaced with 15.
fillmonth if TRUE, then a missing month causes the month and day to be set to 7/1.
Details
The date functions are particularly useful in computing time spans, such as number of days on test,
and similar functions can be found in other statistical packages. The baseline date of Jan 1, 1960 is,
of course, completely arbitrary (it is the same one used by SAS).
The fillday and fillmonth options are perhaps useful only to the author and a very few others:
we sometimes deal with patients whose birth date was in the 1800’s, and only the month or even
only the year is known. When the interval is greater than 80 years, a filler seems defensible.
mdy.date 7
Value
a vector of Julian dates.
References
Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T., and Flannery, B. P. (1992). Numerical Recipes:
The Art of Scientific Computing (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press.
See Also
date.mmddyy, date.ddmmmyy, date.mmddyyyy
Examples
mdy.date(3, 10, 53)
xzt <-1:10
xzy <- as.date(xzt)
test <- data.frame(x = xzt, date = xzy)
summary(test)
Index
∗ chron
as.date, 2
date.ddmmmyy, 3
date.mdy, 3
date.mmddyy, 4
date.mmddyyyy, 5
date.object, 5
mdy.date, 6
[.date (date.object), 5
[[.date (date.object), 5
as.character.date (date.object), 5
as.data.frame.date (date.object), 5
as.date, 2, 6
as.vector.date (date.object), 5
date.ddmmmyy, 2, 3, 4–7
date.mdy, 3, 3, 4–6
date.mmddyy, 2, 4, 7
date.mmddyyyy, 5, 7
date.object, 5
is.date (date.object), 5
is.na.date (date.object), 5
Math.date (date.object), 5
mdy.date, 2–6, 6
Ops.date (date.object), 5
plot.date (date.object), 5
print.date (date.object), 5
Summary.date (date.object), 5
summary.date (date.object), 5
