R: Date Conversion to Character in LaTeX Format

latexDate {dplR} | R Documentation

## Date Conversion to Character in LaTeX Format

### Description

This is a simple convenience function that returns a date in the format used by \today in LaTeX. A possible use case is fixing the date shown in a vignette at weaving time.

### Usage

    latexDate(x = Sys.Date(), ...)

### Arguments

`x` | any object for which an `as.POSIXlt` method exists. Defaults to the current date.
`...` | other arguments to `as.POSIXlt`

### Value

A `character` vector

### Author(s)

Mikko Korpela

### Examples

    latexDate()                              # today
    latexDate(Sys.Date() + 5)                # today + 5 days
    latexDate(c("2013-12-06", "2014-09-19")) # fixed dates
    ## [1] "December 6, 2013"   "September 19, 2014"
    latexDate(5*60*60*24, origin=Sys.Date()) # today + 5 days

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