[R] Turn dates into age

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 20:30:35 CET 2009


What is the frame of reference to determine the age?   Check out 'difftime'.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:50 PM, frenchcr <frenchcr at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Ive got a big column of dates (also some fields dont have a date so they have
> NA instead),
> that i have converted into date format as so...
>
>
> dates<-as.character(data[,"date_commissioned"]); # converted dates to
> characters
> dates[1:10]
> [1] "19910101" "19860101" "19910101" "19860101" "19910101" "19910101"
> "19910101" "19910101" "19910101" "19910101"
>
> dateObs <- as.Date(dates,format="%Y%m%d")
> dateObs[1:10]
> [1] "1991-01-01" "1986-01-01" "1991-01-01" "1986-01-01" "1991-01-01"
> "1991-01-01" "1991-01-01" "1991-01-01" "1991-01-01" "1991-01-01"
>
>
>
> Now i need to turn the dates into AGE, how do i do it? Im not worried about
> fractions of years, whole years would do.
>
>
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