Merge alternative sets of dates for a given dataset.
MergeDates(dates1, dates2, dates3 = NULL, minDate = NULL, maxDate = NULL, fillMissingDates = FALSE, maxgap = 5)
| dates1, | dates2, dates3 Vectors of the POSIXct class to be merged. Where a value in dates1 is NA, MergeDates looks for a corresponding value in dates2 and dates3. |
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| minDate, | maxDate Minimum and maximum possible dates in the format year-month-date, e.g. "2007-06-24". Introduces NA in the place of impossibly high or low dates. |
| fillMissingDates | Logical, defaults to FALSE. If TRUE fills missing NA dates with interpolated values. It is sensible to use this if dates are in a sequence, and if the corresponding 'contents' section includes actual contents (i.e. missing date is not effectively due to a missing article or a link included in the dataset by mistake) |
| maxgap | Integer, defaults to 5. Maximum number of consecutive NAs to fill. |
A vector of the POSIXct class.
# NOT RUN { dates <- MergeDates(dates1, dates2) # }