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as.Date1970

Date from a number of days since the start of 1970.

Description

as.Date.numeric requires origin to be specified. The present function assumes that this origin is January 1, 1970.

Usage

as.Date1970(x, ...)

Arguments

`x`	a numeric vector of dates in days since the start of 1970.
`...`	optional arguments to pass to `as.Date`.

Value

Returns a vector of Dates

Author(s)

Spencer Graves

Examples

days <- c(0, 1, 365)
Dates <- as.Date1970(days)


all.equal(c('1970-01-01', '1970-01-02', '1971-01-01'),
          as.character(Dates))



all.equal(days, as.numeric(Dates))

Ecfun

Functions for 'Ecdat'

v0.2-4

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@effectivedefense.org>

Initial release

2020-10-26