parse_date_columns {basecamb}

Parse values in date columns as Dates

Description

Parse date columns in a data.frame as Date. Use a named list to specify each date column (key) and the format (value) it is coded in.

Usage

parse_date_columns(data, date_formats)

Arguments

data

data.frame to modify

date_formats

named list with:

• Keys: Names of date columns

• values: character specifying the format

Value

data.frame with date columns in Date type

Author(s)

J. Peter Marquardt

Examples

data <- data.frame(date = rep('01/23/4567', 5))
data <- parse_date_columns(data, list(date = '%m/%d/%Y'))