expand_dates {LTASR}

Expand data through range of date values

Description

Expand a data.frame to include all dates between a start and end value defined by parameters x and y

Usage

expand_dates(
  df,
  start,
  end,
  md_tmplt = seq(as.Date("1/1/2015", "%m/%d/%Y"), as.Date("12/31/2015",
    "%m/%d/%Y"), by = "day")
)

Arguments

df

Input data.frame

start

start date

end

end date

md_tmplt

Date vector that defines which dates within a year to output.

Value

A data.frame/tibble containing all variables of the input data.frame as well as a new variable, date, with repeated rows for each date between start and end spaced as defined by md_tmplt.

Examples

library(LTASR)
data <- data.frame(id = 1,
                   start = as.Date('3/1/2015', format='%m/%d/%Y'),
                   end = as.Date('3/15/2015', format='%m/%d/%Y'))
expand_dates(data, start, end)