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R: Determine numeric age
how.oldR Documentation

Determine numeric age

Description

Determines the numeric age in years from a date range.

Usage

how.old(from, to)

Arguments

from

character, beginning of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD format.

to

character, end of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Details

Helper for LexisPlotR. The numeric age gets rounded to 5 digits.

Value

Numeric age in years.

Author(s)

Philipp Ottolinger

Examples

library(LexisPlotR)
how.old(from = "1900-01-01", to = "1905-01-01")

Results


R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
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> library(LexisPlotR)
Loading required package: ggplot2
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/LexisPlotR/how.old.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: how.old
> ### Title: Determine numeric age
> ### Aliases: how.old
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> library(LexisPlotR)
> how.old(from = "1900-01-01", to = "1905-01-01")
[1] 4.99932
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
>