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compute_age

Compute age values

Computes the age given a birth year or a birth date

compute_age(x, age_spec = NULL, reference_year = NULL)

`x`	a string or number vector to be transformed
`age_spec`	a string indicating the age specification, can be one of `NULL`, `"age"`, `"birthyear"`, or `"date_of_birth"`. If this parameter is set to `NULL`, the function automatically tries to infers the specification
`reference_year`	a number indicating the reference year in order to compute the age from a birth year or birth date. If `age_spec` is `"age"`, this parameter can be ignored.

a numeric vector of ages

Salary Analysis by the Swiss Federal Office for Gender Equality

v0.1.0

GPL-3

Authors

Jonathan Chassot [aut, cre], Jeremy Kolly [ctb], Federal Office for Gender Equality of Switzerland [cph, fnd]

Initial release