Hello,

I would like to be able to calculate the age of someone at a particular
date.  Both dates are date objects.  Here is what I have come up with:

floor(as.numeric(sampleInfo$Date.of.DIAGNOSIS-sampleInfo$Date.of.birth)/365.25)

Is this the best approach? or is there an inbuilt function?  I have
looked at difftime but that does not seem to allow output in years.

Many thanks

Dan

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