wakefield (version 0.3.3)

date_stamp: Generate Random Vector of Dates

Description

Generate a random vector of dates.

Usage

date_stamp(n, random = FALSE, x = NULL, start = Sys.Date(), k = 12,
  by = "-1 months", prob = NULL, name = "Date")

Arguments

n

The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within the environment of r_data_frame or r_list.

random

logical. If TRUE the dates are randomized, otherwise the dates are sequential.

x

A vector of elements to chose from. This may be NULL if arguments are supplied to start, k, and by. The x argument takes precedence over the other three if !is.null. Note that start, k, and by work together to make a vector of dates to sample from. See seq.Date for additional information.

start

A date to start the sequence at.

k

The length of the sequence (number of the elements) so build out from start.

by

The interval to use in building the sequence.

prob

A vector of probabilities to chose from.

name

The name to assign to the output vector's varname attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when used inside of r_data_frame or r_list.

Value

Returns a random factor vector of date elements.

See Also

seq.Date

Other variable functions: age, animal, answer, area, car, children, coin, color, death, dice, dna, dob, dummy, education, employment, eye, grade_level, grade, group, hair, height, income, internet_browser, iq, language, level, likert, lorem_ipsum, marital, military, month, name, normal, political, race, religion, sat, sentence, sex_inclusive, sex, smokes, speed, state, string, upper, valid, year, zip_code

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
date_stamp(10)
pie(table(date_stamp(2000, prob = probs(12))))

## Supply dates to `x` to sample from
date_stamp(10, x = seq(as.Date("1980-11-16"), length = 30, by = "1 years"))
# }

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