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Checking for Date Columns in R

Steven Sanderson is looking for a date:

As an R programmer, you may often encounter datasets where you need to determine whether a column contains date values. This task is crucial for data cleaning, manipulation, and analysis. In this blog post, we’ll explore various methods to check if a column is a date in R, with a focus on using the lubridate package and the ts_is_date_class() function from the healthyR.ts package.

Click through to see how, using lubridate and healthyR.