Convenience functions for the lubridate package
Lubridate makes it easier to work with date-time data in R and provides new capabilities. LubridateExtras builds on top of lubridate to provide a number of convenience functions, primarily focused on abstracting patterns in ways that improve code readability and reduce copying and pasting code.
# lubridateExtras is not currently on CRAN
# Please install the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ellisvalentiner/lubridateExtras")If you encounter a clear bug, please file a minimal reproducible example on github.
library(lubridateExtras)
yesterday()
#> [1] "2018-02-20"
tomorrow()
#> [1] "2018-02-22"
days_ago(7) # equivalent to lubridate::today() - lubridate::days(7)
#> [1] "2018-02-14"
(7 %>% days_ago) # usage with magrittr pipe
#> [1] "2018-02-14"
weeks_ago(2) # equivalent to lubridate::today() - lubridate::days(2*7)
#> [1] "2018-02-07"
(2 %>% weeks_ago) # usage with magrittr pipe
#> [1] "2018-02-07"
days_hence(7) # equivalent to lubridate::today() + lubridate::days(7)
#> [1] "2018-02-28"
hms("2017-10-22 15:33:00") # extracts the time-of-day component
#> 15:33:00Some people are probably asking the question: why lubridateExtras?
lubridateExtras does not do anything that you cannot do with lubridate but similarly you don’t need lubridate at all to work with date/times in R! If you like the syntactic sugar of lubridateExtras then use it, otherwise stick with what works for you.