How to prevent ifelse() from turning Date objects into numeric objects

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You may use data.table::fifelse (data.table >= 1.12.3) or dplyr::if_else.

data.table::fifelse

Unlike ifelse, fifelse preserves the type and class of the inputs.

library(data.table)
dates <- fifelse(dates == '2011-01-01', dates - 1, dates)
str(dates)
# Date[1:5], format: "2010-12-31" "2011-01-02" "2011-01-03" "2011-01-04" "2011-01-05"

dplyr::if_else

From dplyr 0.5.0 release notes:

[if_else] have stricter semantics that ifelse(): the true and false arguments must be the same type. This gives a less surprising return type, and preserves S3 vectors like dates” .

library(dplyr)
dates <- if_else(dates == '2011-01-01', dates - 1, dates)
str(dates)
# Date[1:5], format: "2010-12-31" "2011-01-02" "2011-01-03" "2011-01-04" "2011-01-05"

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