Calculate age in years, months, or days — age_calc • stRoke

Calculate age in years, months, or days

Usage

age_calc(dob, enddate = Sys.Date(), units = "years", precise = TRUE)

Source

doi:10.18637/jss.v093.i02

Arguments

dob: Date of birth
enddate: End date for age calculation (default is Sys.Date())
units: Units for age calculation (default is "years"). Can be c("days", "months", "years")
precise: Option to calculate age precisely (default is TRUE)

Value

numeric vector length 1

References

Becker, J.P. (2020). eeptools: An R Package for Teaching and Learning Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Journal of Statistical Software, 93(2), 1-27.

Examples

trunc(age_calc(as.Date("1945-10-23"),as.Date("2018-09-30")))
#> [1] 72