R: Generate Random Vector of Dates

date_stamp {wakefield}

R Documentation

Generate Random Vector of Dates

Description

Generate a random vector of dates.

Usage

date_stamp(
  n,
  random = FALSE,
  x = NULL,
  start = Sys.Date(),
  k = 12,
  by = "-1 months",
  prob = NULL,
  name = "Date"
)

Arguments

`n`	The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within the environment of `r_data_frame` or `r_list`.
`random`	logical. If `TRUE` the dates are randomized, otherwise the dates are sequential.
`x`	A vector of elements to chose from. This may be `NULL` if arguments are supplied to `start`, `k`, and `by`. The `x` argument takes precedence over the other three if `!is.null`. Note that `start`, `k`, and `by` work together to make a vector of dates to sample from. See `seq.Date` for additional information.
`start`	A date to start the sequence at.
`k`	The length of the sequence (number of the elements) so build out from `start`.
`by`	The interval to use in building the sequence.
`prob`	A vector of probabilities to chose from.
`name`	The name to assign to the output vector's `varname` attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when used inside of `r_data_frame` or `r_list`.

Value

Returns a random factor vector of date elements.

Other variable functions: age(), animal(), answer(), area(), car(), children(), coin(), color, death(), dice(), dna(), dob(), dummy(), education(), employment(), eye(), grade_level(), grade(), group(), hair(), height(), income(), internet_browser(), iq(), language, level(), likert(), lorem_ipsum(), marital(), military(), month(), name, normal(), political(), race(), religion(), sat(), sentence(), sex_inclusive(), sex(), smokes(), speed(), state(), string(), upper(), valid(), year(), zip_code()

Examples

date_stamp(10)
pie(table(date_stamp(2000, prob = probs(12))))

## Supply dates to `x` to sample from
date_stamp(10, x = seq(as.Date("1980-11-16"), length = 30, by = "1 years"))