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Frits Verstraten
Frits Verstraten

Reputation: 2189

Classifying dates based on a range

I written a function that classify certain dates as seasons. I have the following variables:

x <- "2014-03-03"
x <- as.Date(x, format = "%Y-%m-%d")


start2014
[1] "2014-09-01"

start2015
[1] "2015-09-01"

But when I try this function:

ifelse((x > start2014 && x < start2015), 1, 0)

I still get:

[1] 0

While it should evaluate to [1]

Any thoughts why this goes wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (1)

lukeA
lukeA

Reputation: 54247

To my knowledge, 2014-03-03 is not greater 2014-09-01: 

x <- c("2014-03-03", "2014-12-01")
x <- as.Date(x, format = "%Y-%m-%d")

start2014 <- as.Date("2014-09-01")
start2015 <- as.Date("2015-09-01")

ifelse((x > start2014 & x < start2015), 1, 0)
[1] 0 1

Upvotes: 1

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