Calculate age in years, months, or days

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.

See also

time_length

Examples

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