Months in Period

Given any starting and ending dates, it generates:
1) a vector of class 'Date' with all the months between the two dates (both of them included), OR
2) the amount of months between the two dates

Usage

mip(from, to, date.fmt = "%Y-%m-%d", out.type = "seq")

Arguments

from

Character indicating the starting date for creating the sequence. It has to be in the format indicated by date.fmt.

to

Character indicating the ending date for creating the sequence. It has to be in the format indicated by date.fmt.

date.fmt

Character indicating the format in which the dates are stored in from and to, e.g. %Y-%m-%d. See format in as.Date.

out.type

character indicating the type of result that is given by this function. Valid values are:
-) seq : a vectorial sequence with all the months within the given year
-) nmbr: the number of days in the vectorial sequence with all the months within the given year

Value

Depending on the value of out.type, it returns:
1) a vector of class Date with all the months between from and to (both of them included), OR
2) a single numeric value with the amount of months between the two dates.

Author

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, mzb.devel@gmail

See also

dip, diy, hip, yip

Examples

# Sequence of monthly dates between "1961-01-01" and "1961-12-31" ##
mip("1961-01-01", "1961-12-31")
#>  [1] "1961-01-01" "1961-02-01" "1961-03-01" "1961-04-01" "1961-05-01"
#>  [6] "1961-06-01" "1961-07-01" "1961-08-01" "1961-09-01" "1961-10-01"
#> [11] "1961-11-01" "1961-12-01"

## Computing the number of months between "1961-01-01" and "1965-06-30", 
## with the date format  "%d-%m-%Y" ##
mip("01-01-1961", "30-06-1965", date.fmt= "%d-%m-%Y", out.type = "nmbr")
#> [1] 54