Combine date and time columns into a single DateTime column

combine_date_time_cols(.data, tz = NULL)

Arguments

.data: (data.frame) A data frame or data frame extension (e.g. a tibble)
tz: (character) a time zone name (default: time zone of the POSIXt object x)

Value

(data.frame) An object of the same type as .data

Examples

df <- data.frame(
  date_a = as.Date(c("2020-01-01", "2020-01-02")),
  date_b = as.POSIXct(c("2020-02-01", "2020-02-02")),
  time_a = as.POSIXct(c("1900-01-01 01:01:01", "1900-01-01 02:02:02")),
  time_b = as.POSIXct(c("1900-01-01 01:01:01", "1900-01-01 02:02:02"))
)

combine_date_time_cols(df)
#> # A tibble: 2 × 2
#>   DateTime_a          DateTime_b         
#>   <dttm>              <dttm>             
#> 1 2020-01-01 01:01:01 2020-02-01 01:01:01
#> 2 2020-01-02 02:02:02 2020-02-02 02:02:02