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latexDate

Date Conversion to Character in LaTeX Format

Description

This is a simple convenience function that returns a date in the format used by \today in LaTeX. A possible use case is fixing the date shown in a vignette at weaving time.

Usage

latexDate(x = Sys.Date(), ...)

Arguments

`x`	any object for which an `as.POSIXlt` method exists. Defaults to the current date.
`...`	other arguments to `as.POSIXlt`

Value

A character vector

Author(s)

Mikko Korpela

Examples

latexDate()                              # today
latexDate(Sys.Date() + 5)                # today + 5 days
latexDate(c("2013-12-06", "2014-09-19")) # fixed dates
## [1] "December 6, 2013"   "September 19, 2014"
latexDate(5*60*60*24, origin=Sys.Date()) # today + 5 days

dplR

Dendrochronology Program Library in R

v1.7.2

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Andy Bunn [aut, cph, cre, trl], Mikko Korpela [aut, cph, trl], Franco Biondi [aut, cph], Filipe Campelo [aut, cph], Pierre Mérian [aut, cph], Fares Qeadan [aut, cph], Christian Zang [aut, cph], Allan Buras [ctb], Jacob Cecile [ctb], Manfred Mudelsee [ctb], Michael Schulz [ctb], Klesse Stefan [ctb], Frank David [ctb], Visser Ronald [ctb]

Initial release

2021-01-27