Add `sticky_units = FALSE` argument to parsers to parse only separated units in dates

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Make working with dates in R just that little bit easier

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Open vspinu opened 1 year ago

vspinu commented 1 year ago

Because parsing in lubridate is too permissive it often creates undesired results when years are parsed as month-day or similar.

> mdy("June 2013")
[1] "2013-06-20"
> mdy("June 2013", sticky_units = FALSE)
[1] NA

alternative names for the new parameter stiky, allow_sticky, touching_units. glued_units.

vspinu commented 1 year ago

We probably should make this argument FALSE by default. Not backward compatible but this issue is a real pain.