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2012 Jul 11
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unable to subtract dates in R
Hi,
I wanted to calculate the age of people in my dataset by subtracting the
individual's date of birth from their intake into a program.
After several hours, searches of help archives, and the downloading of
lubiridate, I have had no luck with this.
Below is the code I used.
> intakeDS$DOB <- as.character(intakeDS$DOB)
> intakeDS$DOB <- as.Date(intakeDS$DOB, "%Y%m%d")
>
> # Make IntakeDate a date variable, by first converting it from numeric to
character then from character to dat...