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Convert numeric to date

Source: R/convert_numeric_to_date.R
convert_numeric_to_date.Rd

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 to apply the conversion exclusively to the tagged columns.

ref_date

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

forward

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

Value

A <data.frame> or <linelist> 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 = "recruited_on_day",
  ref_date = as.Date("2022-10-13"),
  forward = TRUE
)