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\name{ymd}
\alias{ymd}
\alias{ydm}
\alias{mdy}
\alias{myd}
\alias{dmy}
\alias{dym}
\alias{yq}
\alias{ym}
\alias{my}
\title{Parse dates with \strong{y}ear, \strong{m}onth, and \strong{d}ay components}
\usage{
ymd(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

ydm(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

mdy(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

myd(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

dmy(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

dym(
  ...,
  quiet = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"),
  truncated = 0
)

yq(..., quiet = FALSE, tz = NULL, locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"))

ym(..., quiet = FALSE, tz = NULL, locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"))

my(..., quiet = FALSE, tz = NULL, locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME"))
}
\arguments{
\item{...}{a character or numeric vector of suspected dates}

\item{quiet}{logical. If \code{TRUE}, function evaluates without displaying
customary messages.}

\item{tz}{Time zone indicator. If \code{NULL} (default), a Date object is
returned. Otherwise a POSIXct with time zone attribute set to \code{tz}.}

\item{locale}{locale to be used, see \link{locales}. On Linux systems you
can use \code{system("locale -a")} to list all the installed locales.}

\item{truncated}{integer. Number of formats that can be truncated.}
}
\value{
a vector of class POSIXct if \code{tz} argument is non-\code{NULL} or Date if tz
is \code{NULL} (default)
}
\description{
Transforms dates stored in character and numeric vectors to Date or POSIXct
objects (see \code{tz} argument). These functions recognize arbitrary
non-digit separators as well as no separator. As long as the order of
formats is correct, these functions will parse dates correctly even when the
input vectors contain differently formatted dates. See examples.
}
\details{
In case of heterogeneous date formats, the \code{ymd()} family guesses formats based
on a subset of the input vector. If the input vector contains many missing
values or non-date strings, the subset might not contain meaningful dates
and the date-time format won't be guessed resulting in
\verb{All formats failed to parse} error. In such cases please see
\code{\link[=parse_date_time]{parse_date_time()}} for a more flexible parsing interface.

If the \code{truncated} parameter is non-zero, the \code{ymd()} functions also check for
truncated formats. For example, \code{ymd()} with \code{truncated = 2} will also
parse incomplete dates like \code{2012-06} and \code{2012}.

NOTE: The \code{ymd()} family of functions is based on \code{parse_date_time()} and thus
directly drop to the internal C parser for numeric months, but uses
\code{\link[base:strptime]{base::strptime()}} for alphabetic months. This implies that some of \code{\link[base:strptime]{base::strptime()}}'s
limitations are inherited by \pkg{lubridate}'s parser. For example, truncated
formats (like \verb{\%Y-\%b}) will not be parsed. Numeric truncated formats (like
\verb{\%Y-\%m}) are handled correctly by \pkg{lubridate}'s C parser.

As of version 1.3.0, \pkg{lubridate}'s parse functions no longer return a
message that displays which format they used to parse their input. You can
change this by setting the \code{lubridate.verbose} option to \code{TRUE} with
\code{options(lubridate.verbose = TRUE)}.
}
\examples{
x <- c("09-01-01", "09-01-02", "09-01-03")
ymd(x)
x <- c("2009-01-01", "2009-01-02", "2009-01-03")
ymd(x)
ymd(090101, 90102)
now() > ymd(20090101)
## TRUE
dmy(010210)
mdy(010210)

yq('2014.2')

## heterogeneous formats in a single vector:
x <- c(20090101, "2009-01-02", "2009 01 03", "2009-1-4",
       "2009-1, 5", "Created on 2009 1 6", "200901 !!! 07")
ymd(x)

## What lubridate might not handle:

## Extremely weird cases when one of the separators is "" and some of the
## formats are not in double digits might not be parsed correctly:
\dontrun{ymd("201002-01", "201002-1", "20102-1")
dmy("0312-2010", "312-2010")}
}
\seealso{
\code{\link[=parse_date_time]{parse_date_time()}} for an even more flexible low level
mechanism.
}
\keyword{chron}
