Getting previous month start date and end date from current date in R

Question

Is there any easy way for getting start date and end date of previous month from the current date in R?

I have only the current date. From it, i want to get the prev

Answer 1

Using lubridate it's a piece of cake:

library(lubridate)
floor_date(Sys.Date() - months(1), "month")

There is a plenty of good libraries in R. Seems like everything you need is already created.

UPDATED version:

library(lubridate)
floor_date(as.Date("2011-03-29"), "month") - months(1)

This one is corrected to work well with the 29th of march.