Your approach is quite simple and works well
Another option is
as.Date(setdiff(date_range, d), origin="1970-01-01")
but I do not believe that it has some advantage above yours.
Cheers
Petr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Jeff Reichman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 10:28 PM
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> Subject: [R] Reporting missing dates
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> R-help Forum
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> I have a 20 year data set and I am looking for a way to find missing
dates.
> I wrote this and its works, but am wounding if there is a better way?
>
> d <- c('2020-01-01', '2020-01-02', '2020-01-04', '2020-01-05')
> d <- as.Date(d)
> date_range <- seq(min(d), max(d), by = 1)
> date_range[!date_range %in% d]
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Jeff Reichman
>
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