Calculate the temporal Coverage — cov

This function calculates the temporal coverage of a dataset (occurrences, events, or similar) based on a specified date variable.

Usage

cov_temporal(
  x,
  date_var,
  date_format = NULL,
  tryFormats = c("%Y-%m-%d", "%Y/%m/%d"),
  report = TRUE
)

Arguments

x: A data frame.
date_var: The name of the date variable column in the data frame.
date_format: The format of the date variable (optional).
tryFormats: A vector of possible date formats to try if the date variable is not in a standard format.
report: Logical value indicating whether to print the temporal coverage report.

Value

A data frame with the minimum and maximum dates from the date variable.

Details

If the date_format argument is not specified, the function will attempt to determine the format of the date variable automatically using the tryFormats vector. If the date variable is not in a standard format, an error will be thrown.

Examples


data("borreguiles")
cov_temporal(borreguiles, date_var = "eventDate", report = TRUE)
#> Warning: The argument date_format is not specified. A default format is assumed. See function's details
#> The temporal coverage of the dataset is 1988-05-18 to 2013-10-17.
#>     min_date   max_date
#> 1 1988-05-18 2013-10-17