Parse Dates Safely

Attempts to parse date columns using multiple common formats via lubridate. Returns Date objects or NA for unparseable values.

Usage

parse_dates(
  data,
  date_columns = c("date_of_admission", "date_of_culture", "date_of_final_outcome",
    "DOB")
)

Arguments

data

Data frame containing date columns

date_columns

Character vector of column names to parse as dates. Default includes common date fields.

Value

Data frame with date columns converted to Date class