getage {eye}

getage

Description

calculates age in years, as durations or periods

Usage

getage(from_date, to_date = lubridate::now(), period = FALSE, dec = 1)

Arguments

from_date

start date

to_date

end date

period

Calculating period (TRUE) or duration (FALSE- default)

dec

How many decimals are displayed

Value

Numeric vector

Author(s)

Antoine Fabri and Tjebo Heeren

See Also

OP on stackoverflow from which this function was inspired. Read about periods and durations

Examples

getage("1984-10-16")

dob <-  c("1984-10-16", "2000-01-01")
test_date <-  as.Date(dob) + c(15000, 20000)
getage(dob, test_date)