SciencesPo (version 0.11.21)

get.years: Get date difference in years.

Description

Returns difference in years between two date points.

Usage

get.years(earlier, later)

Arguments

earlier

An earlier date variable.

later

An later date variable.

Value

• An integer vector for time in years.

encoding

UTF-8

References

Daniel Marcelino and Alejandro Tapias (2014) When the Winner Comes Third. IJAS, 30(6), 1640--1648.

See Also

shift.

Examples

earlier <- as.Date("2012-11-05")
later <- as.Date("2014-11-06")
get.years(earlier, later)