Calculate the date before / after months

Usage

edate(ref_date, months)

Arguments

ref_date: a Date vector
months: the number of months that's added to ref_date

Note

The function name is the same as the Excel function EDATE() and does the same. It returns the date that is the indicated number of months before or after the ref date.

Examples

edate(as.Date("2020-01-31"), 1)
#> [1] "2020-02-29"
## supports 'YMD' formatted integer or string
edate(200131, 1)
#> [1] "2020-02-29"
edate(200229, -12)
#> [1] "2019-02-28"