A dataset containing the names and dates of battles in 2001, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_in_the_21st_century).
Format
A data frame with 20 rows and 5 variables:
- Battle
name of the battle, character
- Date
date or date range, a mdate class vector
- Parties
parties to the conflict, character
- US_party
is the US a party to the battle, numeric
- N_actors
number of actors to conflict, numeric
Examples
battles$Date
#> 'mdate' chr [1:20] "2001-03-08" "2001-04-16..2001-04-20" "2001-05-25" ...
as.Date(battles$Date, FUN = vmin)
#> [1] "2001-03-08" "2001-04-16" "2001-05-25" "2001-06-22" "2001-08-13"
#> [6] "2001-10-07" "2001-10-19" "2001-11-09" "2001-11-11" "2001-11-12"
#> [11] "2001-11-13" "2001-11-13" "2001-11-15" "2001-11-22" "2001-11-25"
#> [16] "2001-12-12" "2001-12-03" "2001-12-04" "2001-12-22" "2001-12-30"