Date function to convert character/other as.POSIXct to date.

Source: R/date_fun.R

Date function to convert character/other as.POSIXct to date.

date_fun(x, tz = "EST", form = "%F")

Arguments

x

as.POSIXct or as.character

tz

timezone (default set to Eastern Standard Time)

form

format (default set to YYYY-mm-dd)

Value

Helper function to format date (and date-time) fields

Examples

datetime=as.character(c("2015-05-01 08:00:00","2015-10-15 12:00:00","2015-10-15 5:00:00"))
date_fun(datetime);# just date
#> [1] "2015-05-01 EST" "2015-10-15 EST" "2015-10-15 EST"
date_fun(datetime, form="%F %X"); #include date and time
#> [1] "2015-05-01 08:00:00 EST" "2015-10-15 12:00:00 EST"
#> [3] "2015-10-15 05:00:00 EST"