Checking if Date is Between two Dates in R

Question

I have two large datasets, df1 and df2. The first dataset, df1, contains the columns \'ID\' and \'actual.data\'.

df1 <- data.frame(ID=c(1,1,1,2,3,4,4), a         


        

Answer 1

Here is a solution with dplyr

library(dplyr)
dat <- inner_join(df1, df2, by = "ID")
dat %>% rowwise() %>%
        mutate(match = ifelse(between(actual.date, before.date, after.date), 1, 0)) %>%
        select(-c(before.date, after.date)) %>%
        arrange(actual.date, desc(match)) %>%
        distinct(actual.date)

the output is slightly different because it order the actual.date, maybe this is a problem, I'll delete my solution if the case.

Source: local data frame [7 x 3]

  ID actual.date match
1  1  1997-10-01     0
2  1  1998-02-01     1
3  2  1999-07-01     0
4  1  2002-05-01     1
5  4  2003-02-03     1
6  3  2005-09-01     1
7  4  2006-05-01     0