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Dates are hard

I was making more difficult. I need to extract the month from dates submitted.

test_date <- session_summary %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(date = as.Date(date)) %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(date = lubridate::ymd(date)) %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(month = lubridate:: month(date, label = TRUE))

The worst is when the code runs and appears correct but is not.

Turns out I was making the process too difficult here is the code chunk that worked.

play_session <- session_summary %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(new_date = lubridate::mdy(date)) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(month = lubridate:: month(new_date, label = TRUE))

Maybe not optimized but it worked.

Until next time, cheers!

Dates are hard

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