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nprcgenekeepr (version 1.0.8)

removeEarlyDates: removeEarlyDates removes dates before a specified year

Description

Dates before a specified year are set to NA. This is often used for dates formed from malformed character representations such as a date in %m-%d-%Y format being read by %Y-%m-%d format

Usage

removeEarlyDates(dates, firstYear)

Value

A vector of dates after the year indicated by the numeric value of firstYear.

Arguments

dates

vector of dates

firstYear

integer value of first (earliest) year in the allowed date range.

Details

NA values are ignored and not changed.

Examples

Run this code
dates <- structure(c(
  12361, 14400, 15413, NA, 11189, NA, 13224, 10971,
  -432000, 13262
), class = "Date")
cleanedDates <- removeEarlyDates(dates, firstYear = 1000)
dates
cleanedDates

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