Calculate ages in R

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The following function takes a vectors of Date objects and calculates the ages, correctly accounting for leap years. Seems to be a simpler solution than any of the other answers.

age = function(from, to) {
  from_lt = as.POSIXlt(from)
  to_lt = as.POSIXlt(to)

  age = to_lt$year - from_lt$year

  ifelse(to_lt$mon < from_lt$mon |
         (to_lt$mon == from_lt$mon & to_lt$mday < from_lt$mday),
         age - 1, age)
}

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