R: Replace Dates With Words

replace_date {textclean} | R Documentation

## Replace Dates With Words

### Description

Replaces dates with word equivalents.

### Usage

    replace_date(x, pattern = NULL, replacement = NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | The text variable.
`pattern` | Character date regex string to be matched in the given character vector.
`replacement` | A function to operate on the extracted matches or a character string which is a replacement for the matched pattern.
`...` | ignored.

### Value

Returns a vector with the pattern replaced.

### Examples

    x <- c(
        NA, '11-16-1980 and 11/16/1980',
        "and 2017-02-08 but then there's 2/8/2017 too"
    )

    replace_date(x)
    replace_date(x, replacement = '<<DATE>>')

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