convert date to age in days — dateToDaysOld • jamba

convert date to age in days

dateToDaysOld(testDate, nowDate = Sys.Date(), units = "days", ...)

Arguments

testDate: character date recognized by asDate(), representing the test date.
nowDate: character date recognized by asDate(), representing the reference date, by default the current day.
units: character indicating the units, as used by difftime().
...: additional parameters are ignored.

Value

integer value with the number of calendar days before the current date, or the nowDate if supplied.

See also

Other jam date functions: asDate(), getDate()

Examples

dateToDaysOld("23aug2007")
#> [1] 5831