change date to the last day of the month

Question

I've tried to change the character variable into a variable of class Date, then changed it to the last day of the month.

data %>% mutate("Month"= as.Date(paste(Month,"-01",sep=""))) -> data
data$Month <- paste(format(data$Month, format="%Y-%m"),"-", days_in_month(data$Month), sep="")

This works when run through the console but when I try to knit to pdf I get

Error in days_in_month(data$Month): could not find function "days_in_month" Calls: ... withCallingHandlers -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> paste In addition: Warning message: In has_crop_tools(): Tool(s) not installed or not in PATH: ghostcript -> As a result, figure cropping will be disabled. Execution halted

I want to keep as.Date and days_in_month() but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong and is it possible to join the second line of code to the first line?

Answer 1

Try adding:

library(lubridate)

in some chunk before that command. It should work.

Answer 2

if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman") pacman::p_load(tidyverse, lubridate) data <- tribble( ~ id, ~ Month, 1, "2020-04", 2, "2020-05", 3, "2020-12") data %>% mutate(Month = ymd(paste0(Month, "-01")), Month = Month + days(days_in_month(Month) - 1)) #> # A tibble: 3 x 2 #> id Month #> <dbl> <date> #> 1 1 2020-04-30 #> 2 2 2020-05-31 #> 3 3 2020-12-31