contact (version 1.2.8)

dateFake: Create Fake Date Information

Description

This function assigns fake date information, beginning 01/01/startYear, to each empirical timestamp. Users can control what format the output vector is in by changing the dateFormat argument (format: "mdy" = month-day-year, "ymd" = year-month-day, "dmy" = day-month-year, or "ydm" = year-day-month).

This is a sub-function that can be found within datetime.append.

Usage

dateFake(timestamp, dateFormat = "mdy", startYear = 2000)

Arguments

timestamp

Vector of time information with format "hour:minute:second."

dateFormat

Character string. Defines how date information will be presented in output. Takes values "mdy" (i.e., month/day/year), "ymd" (i.e., year/month/day), "dmy" (i.e., day/month/year), or "ydm" (i.e., year/day/month). Defaults to "mdy."

startYear

Numerical. Denotes what year fake date information will begin if dateFake == TRUE. Defaults to 2000.

Value

Output is a vector of date values (e.g., "01-1-2000") with length length(timestamp).

Details

Note that the timestamp argument should be a vector of all relevant timepoints. Additionally, timepoints should be in hms ("hour, minute, second") format.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("calves")
dateFake(calves$time, dateFormat = "mdy", startYear = 2000) 
# }