convert_numeric_to_date {cleanepi}

Convert numeric to date

Description

Convert numeric to date

Usage

convert_numeric_to_date(data, target_columns, ref_date, forward = TRUE)

Arguments

data

The input data frame or linelist

target_columns

A vector of columns names to be converted from numeric to date. When the input data is a linelist object, this parameter can be set to linelist_tags if you wish to only convert the tagged columns.

ref_date

A reference date. This can also be a character string with the name of the reference column.

forward

A Boolean to indicate whether the counts started after the reference date (TRUE) or not (FALSE). The default is TRUE.

Value

A data frame where the column of interest are updated

Examples

data <- readRDS(system.file("extdata", "test_df1.RDS", package = "cleanepi"))
data <- convert_numeric_to_date(
  data           = data,
  target_columns = "recruted_on_day",
  ref_date       = as.Date("2022-10-13"),
  forward        = TRUE
)