dip: Days in Period

Description

Given any starting and ending dates, it generates:
1) a vector of class Date with all the days between from and to (both of them included), OR
2) the amount of days between the two dates

Usage

dip(from, to, date.fmt = "%Y-%m-%d", out.type = "seq")

Value

Depending on the value of out.type, it returns:

1) a vector of class Date with all the days between from and to (both of them included), OR

2) the amount of days between the two dates

Arguments

from: Character indicating the starting date for creating the sequence. It has to be in the format indicated by date.fmt.
to: Character indicating the ending date for creating the sequence. It has to be in the format indicated by date.fmt.
date.fmt: character indicating the format in which the dates are stored in from and to, e.g. %Y-%m-%d. See format in as.Date.
ONLY required when class(dates)=="factor" or class(dates)=="numeric".
out.type: Character indicating the type of result that is given by this function. Valid values are:
1) seq : a vector of class Date with all the days between the two dates, OR
2) nmbr: a single numeric value with the amount of days between the two dates.

Author

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, mzb.devel@gmail

Examples

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## Sequence of daily dates between "1961-01-01" and "1961-12-31" ##
dip("1961-01-01", "1961-12-31")

## Number of days between "1961-01-01" and "1965-06-30", 
## but using "%d-%m-%Y" as date format.
dip("01-01-1961", "30-06-1965", date.fmt= "%d-%m-%Y", out.type = "nmbr")