easyr (version 0.5-11)

ydiff: Date Difference in Years

Description

Date Difference in Years

Usage

ydiff(x, y, do.date.convert = TRUE, do.numeric = TRUE)

Value

Vector of differences.

Arguments

x

Vector of starting dates or items that can be converted to dates by todate.

y

Vector of ending dates or items that can be converted to dates by todate.

do.date.convert

Convert to dates before running the difference. If you know your columns are already dates, setting to FALSE will make your code run faster.

do.numeric

Convert the output to a number instead of a date difference object.

Examples

ydiff( lubridate::mdy( '1/1/2018' ), lubridate::mdy( '3/4/2018' ) )