Generate random dates — rdate • cleaner

This function provides random date generation with a specified range, that defaults to the beginning and end of the current year.

rdate(
  n,
  min = paste0(format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"), "-01-01"),
  max = paste0(format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"), "-12-31"),
  ...
)

Arguments

n: number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.
min, max: lower and upper limits of the distribution. Must be (coercible to) valid dates.
...: parameters given to as.Date() for coercing the values of min and max

# generate a million random dates and check the distribution
hist(rdate(1000000), breaks = "months")