Transform a Year into a Date — year2Date • beverstan

Transform a year given as a string into a date corresponding either the beginning of the year ot the begining of the following year.

Usage

year2Date(str, type = c("start", "end"))

str: A character string.
type: The type of date to return. This has only an effect when only the year is given, as oppposed to a full date. Then, when type is "start", the character str is expected to describe the beginning of a time range and the returned date will be the beginning of the year. When instead type is "end", the character str is expected to describle the end of a time range and the returned date will be the beginning of the next year. See Examples.

An object of class "Date" representing either the beginning or the end of a time range.

This function is not expected to work when str has length > 1.

year2Date("2021")
#> [1] "2021-01-01"
year2Date("2021", type = "end")
#> [1] "2022-01-01"