[R] sum with dates

[R. Michael Weylandt]

It depends how your dates are stored, but generally you can just add
365*15 to them. E.g.,

print(x <- Sys.Date())
print(x + 365*15)

So for you,

dataset$dates <- dataset$dates + 365*15

Michael

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Ana <rrasterr at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I sum 15 years to my dataset?
>
> original dataset
>         dates        val
> 1    2001-01-12    1.2
> 2    2001-02-12    1.2
> 3    2001-03-12    1.2
>
> result
>         dates        val
> 1 2016-01-12 1.2
> 2    2016-02-12 1.2
> 3    2016-03-12 1.2
>
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