lnt_asDate

Converts dates from string formats common in LexisNexis to a
 date object.

My PhD supervisor once told me that everyone doing newspaper
analysis starts by writing code to read in files from the 'LexisNexis' newspaper
archive (retrieved e.g., from <https://www.lexisnexis.com/> or any of the partner
sites). However, while this is a nice exercise I do recommend, not everyone has
the time. This package takes files downloaded from the newspaper archive of
'LexisNexis', reads them into R and offers functions for further processing.

Johannes Gruber

LexisNexisTools

Working with Files from 'LexisNexis'

Johannes B. Gruber

lnt_asDate function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>A character object to be converted.</dd>
<dt>format</dt>
<dd>Either "auto" to guess the format based on a common order of
day, month and year or provide a custom format (see
<a href="/link/stri_datetime_format?package=LexisNexisTools&version=1.0.0" data-mini-rdoc="LexisNexisTools::stri_datetime_format">stri_datetime_format</a> for format options).</dd>
<dt>locale</dt>
<dd>A ISO 639-1 locale code (see
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes</a>).</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>Not used.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Convert Strings to dates — lnt_asDate

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>A character object to be converted.</dd>


<dt>format</dt>
<dd>Either "auto" to guess the format based on a common order of
day, month and year or provide a custom format (see
<a href='https://rdrr.io/pkg/stringi/man/stri_datetime_format.html'>stri_datetime_format</a> for format options).</dd>


<dt>locale</dt>
<dd>A ISO 639-1 locale code (see
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes</a>).</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>Not used.</dd>

</dl>

lnt_asDate: Convert Strings to dates

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