📢 Simplifying Dates and Times in R: Base R vs. lubridate 📆⏰

as.Date() class: In R, as.Date() converts input to a date format. For example, class(as.Date("1881/10/25")) yields the "Date" class.

Today's date and time: Use today() and now() to fetch the current date or date and time effortlessly.

Class compatibility: as_date() (lubridate) and as.Date() (base R) produce the same "Date" class output.

#Rprogramming #RStats #DatesandTimes #lubridate

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Link to the blog post: https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/rtip-2023-03-08/

#R #heatingoil #NewYork #datavisualization #timetk #dplyr #xml2 #rvest #oil #heatingoil #nys #purrr #lubridate

@filmicaesthetic I learned via #tidyverse so the first line in all my scripts is library(tidyverse)

And I'm excited for the day #lubridate is folded in. Essentially one less line in all my scripts!