How to account for leap years?

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You can check if a year is a leap year with leap_year from lubridate.

years <- 1895:2005
years[leap_year(years)]

This package will also handle not generating impossible 29ths of February.

ymd("2000-2-29") + years(1)    # NA
ymd("2000-2-29") %m+% years(1) # "2001-02-28"

The %m+% “add months” operator, as mentioned by @VitoshKa, rolls the date back to the end of the previous month if the actual day doesn’t exist.

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