Parse Ethiopian Date

Parse Ethiopian date from character vector that has a non-digit separator.

Usage

eth_parse_date(x, format = "%Y-%m-%d", lang = c("lat", "amh", "en"))

Arguments

x

a character vector.

format

a format in in which x is composed. See strptime.

lang

a language in which month names are written, if included in x. Use "lat" for Amharic month names written in Latin alphabets, "amh" for month names written in Amharic alphabets, and "en" for English month names.

Value

a vector of an'ethdate' object.

Details

x must include a non-digit separator and exactly three components of the date (year, month, and day).

See also

eth_date() eth_make_date()

Author

Gutama Girja Urago

Examples

eth_parse_date("2017-01-01")
#> [1] "2017-01-01"
s <- c("01/01/2013", "06/13/2011")
eth_parse_date(s, format = "%d/%m/%Y")
#> [1] "2013-01-01" "2011-13-06"