Proposing the case for using a readymade data table in R. When creating a chart or a aggregate table we can always use the appropriate functions to convert a date into any other unit like year, month, financial year, quarter, financial quarter, semester and so on. But if it is already available via a simple date table then it makes the life easy. You can make the coffee from scratch, but when you are hard pressed for time an instant coffee might be what we need. (Not offending the coffee lovers , I love my cofee too, but just using an analogy). This is what the ready made date table can do for you. Since I have started using the data table, it is a piece of cake to draw various charts in few seconds. Create once use again and again. Would love to hear your experiences on this. Is there any other field which you use when using dates ?
Proposing the case for using a readymade data table in R. When creating a chart or a aggregate table we can always use the appropriate functions to convert a date into any other unit like year, month, financial year, quarter, financial quarter, semester and so on. But if it is already available via a simple date table then it makes the life easy. You can make the coffee from scratch, but when you are hard pressed for time an instant coffee might be what we need. (Not offending the coffee lovers , I love my cofee too, but just using an analogy).
This is what the ready made date table can do for you. Since I have started using the data table, it is a piece of cake to draw various charts in few seconds. Create once use again and again.
Would love to hear your experiences on this. Is there any other field which you use when using dates ?
Do you post the code anywhere?
Hi there.
rpubs.com/techanswers88/Create-Date-Table