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% Please edit documentation in R/age.R
\name{age}
\alias{age}
\title{Age in years of individuals}
\usage{
age(x, reference = Sys.Date())
}
\arguments{
\item{x}{date(s), will be coerced with \code{\link{as.POSIXlt}}}
\item{reference}{reference date(s) (defaults to today), will be coerced with \code{\link{as.POSIXlt}} and cannot be lower than \code{x}}
}
\value{
Integer (no decimals)
}
\description{
Calculates age in years based on a reference date, which is the sytem date at default.
}
\section{Read more on our website!}{
On our website \url{https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR} you can find \href{https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR/articles/AMR.html}{a comprehensive tutorial} about how to conduct AMR analysis, the \href{https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR/reference}{complete documentation of all functions} (which reads a lot easier than here in R) and \href{https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR/articles/WHONET.html}{an example analysis using WHONET data}.
}
\examples{
df <- data.frame(birth_date = Sys.Date() - runif(100) * 25000)
df$age <- age(df$birth_date)
}
\seealso{
\code{\link{age_groups}} to split age into age groups
}