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ethiodate

This package enables you to work with Ethiopian dates in R like you do with base R Date objects. It can seamlessly convert to and from Gregorian dates, regardless of the way you record them. It supports almost all important parsing techniques used for a base R Date object. If you have ever worked with a Date object, you can do the same with Ethiopian dates. This package ensures lightning-fast computations thanks to the {Rcpp} package that enables the integration of high-performance C++ code. It has built-in checks for leap years and the 13th month (Pagume), which makes this package crucial.

Key Features:

• Custom Date Object: You can convert your date recorded in any style to custom ethdate object.
• Seamless Date Conversion: Effortlessly convert Ethiopian dates to and from Gregorian dates.
• High-Speed Computation: Written in C++ for maximum efficiency.
• Date Arithmetic: Perform date additions and subtractions with precision.
• Day-Based Units: Dates are represented as the number of days since 1963-04-23 EC (1970-01-01 GC) to simplify conversion between calendars.

Installation

You can install the development version of ethiodate package like so:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("GutUrago/ethiodate")

Usage

This package is for you if you have ever faced the following conditions, where;

• You recorded Ethiopian year, month and days as a separate variable and not sure if the combination is valid date?
• You recorded Ethiopian date as “dd-mm-yy”, “yy/mm/dd”, … etc, and you can’t perform any operations beyond string operations?
• You have Ethiopian dates in any of above listed format and want to convert it to Gregorian dates?
• You have Gregorian dates object and want to obtain equivalent Ethiopian dates?
• You want to do some arithmetic operations with Ethiopian dates?

Here are a few examples:

library(ethiodate)
library(dplyr)

data.frame(
  eth_year = c(2000, 2007, 2015, 2020, 1950, 2030),
  eth_month = c(8, 2, 13, 5, 7, 5),
  eth_day = c(25, 12, 6, 8, 17, 30)
) |> 
  mutate(
    eth_date = eth_make_date(eth_year, eth_month, eth_day), # Make `ethdate` object
    gre_date = as.Date(eth_date), # Convert to Gregorian date
    eth_dayname = eth_weekday(eth_date, lang = "en"), # Weekday name EC
    gre_dayname = weekdays(gre_date), # Weekday name GC
    eth_date2 = eth_date(gre_date), # From GC to EC
    eth_str = glue::glue("{eth_year}/{eth_month}/{eth_day}"), # Make string
    eth_prsd = eth_parse_date(eth_str, format = "%Y/%m/%d"), # Parse string
    eth_year2 = eth_year(eth_date), # Extract components
    eth_month2 = eth_month(eth_date),
    eth_day2 = eth_day(eth_date)
  )
#>   eth_year eth_month eth_day   eth_date   gre_date eth_dayname gre_dayname
#> 1     2000         8      25 2000-08-25 2008-05-03    Saturday    Saturday
#> 2     2007         2      12 2007-02-12 2014-10-22   Wednesday   Wednesday
#> 3     2015        13       6 2015-13-06 2023-09-11      Monday      Monday
#> 4     2020         5       8 2020-05-08 2028-01-17      Monday      Monday
#> 5     1950         7      17 1950-07-17 1958-03-26   Wednesday   Wednesday
#> 6     2030         5      30 2030-05-30 2038-02-07      Sunday      Sunday
#>    eth_date2   eth_str   eth_prsd eth_year2 eth_month2 eth_day2
#> 1 2000-08-25 2000/8/25 2000-08-25      2000          8       25
#> 2 2007-02-12 2007/2/12 2007-02-12      2007          2       12
#> 3 2015-13-06 2015/13/6 2015-13-06      2015         13        6
#> 4 2020-05-08  2020/5/8 2020-05-08      2020          5        8
#> 5 1950-07-17 1950/7/17 1950-07-17      1950          7       17
#> 6 2030-05-30 2030/5/30 2030-05-30      2030          5       30

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They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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