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add to pages: lubridate #48

Closed RhoBott closed 3 years ago

RhoBott commented 3 years ago

Time data is notoriously complicated + variably formatted; lubridate is great at dealing with it, and also -- folks who are using our pages as their springboard to R might not know this exists.

I'm not sure where in our documentation this fits or entirely how to scope this; adding here to start the conversation.

Some things we might wish to add:

simonpcouch commented 3 years ago

Totally on board for having something re: lubridate around.

One observation which may not hold for others... I mostly use lubridate when I'm plotting---getting axes to format properly / trying to extract more or less discrete units of time to visualize. Is this others' experience? If so, maybe a home for brief mention + explanation could be in the plotting sections. If not so, ignore. :-)