dateadd {CDMConnector}

Add days or years to a date in a dplyr query

Description

This function must be "unquoted" using the "bang bang" operator (!!). See example.

Usage

dateadd(date, number, interval = "day")

Arguments

date

The name of a date column in the database table as a character string

number

The number of units to add. Can be a positive or negative whole number.

interval

The units to add. Must be either "day" (default) or "year"

Value

Platform specific SQL that can be used in a dplyr query.

Examples

## Not run: 
con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb::duckdb())
date_tbl <- dplyr::copy_to(con, data.frame(date1 = as.Date("1999-01-01")),
                           name = "tmpdate", overwrite = TRUE, temporary = TRUE)

df <- date_tbl %>%
  dplyr::mutate(date2 = !!dateadd("date1", 1, interval = "year")) %>%
  dplyr::collect()

DBI::dbDisconnect(con, shutdown = TRUE)

## End(Not run)