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Generates a date range relative to a supplied end date.

Source: R/export_validate.R
sb_date_range.Rd

This function generates a date range based on a specified duration relative to a supplied end date, where the default end date is today's date. It returns a vector of length two containing the start date and end date in "dd/mm/YYYY" strings.

For more details see the help vignette: vignette("exporting-data")

Usage

sb_date_range(
  duration_value,
  duration_unit = c("days", "weeks", "months", "years"),
  end_date = format(lubridate::today(), "%d/%m/%Y")
)

Arguments

duration_value

Number of days, weeks, months or years from end date.

duration_unit

Either "days", "weeks", "months" or "years". Defaults to "days".

end_date

Must be a string in "dd/mm/YYYY" format. Defaults to today's date.

Value

A vector containing a start date and end date as strings in "dd/mm/YYYY" format.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Generate date range for the last 7 days
sb_date_range(duration_value = "7", duration_unit = "days")

# Generate date range for one year ending on "01/06/2023"
sb_date_range("1", "years", end_date = "01/06/2023")
} # }