You can use the following functions from the package in R to quickly add and subtract months from a date:

Method 1: Add Months

#add two months to date
my_date %m+% months(2)

Method 2: Subtract Months

#subtract two months from date
my_date %m-% months(2)

The following examples show how to use each method in practice.

Example 1: Add Months to Date

The following code shows how to add two months to a date in R:

library(lubridate)

#define date
my_date <- as.Date("2022-7-15")

#add two months to date
my_date %m+% months(2)

[1] "2022-09-15"

Notice that two months have been added to the original date of 7/15/2022 to produce a new date of 9/15/2022.

Example 2: Subtract Months from Date

The following code shows how to subtract two months from a date in R:

library(lubridate)

#define date
my_date <- as.Date("2022-7-15")

#subtract two months from date
my_date %m-% months(2)

[1] "2022-05-15"

Notice that two months have been subtracted from the original date of 7/15/2022 to produce a new date of 5/15/2022.

Example 3: Add & Subtract Months in Data Frame

Suppose we have the following data frame in R:

#create data frame
df <- data.frame(date=as.Date(c("2022-3-14", "2022-5-29", "2022-7-15")),
                 sales=c(140, 119, 138))

#view data frame
df

        date sales
1 2022-03-14   140
2 2022-05-29   119
3 2022-07-15   138

library(lubridate)

#create new column that adds two months to each date
df$two_months_after <- df$date %m+% months(2)

#create new column that subtracts two months from each date
df$two_months_before <- df$date %m-% months(2)

#view updated data frame
df

        date sales two_months_after two_months_before
1 2022-03-14   140       2022-05-14        2022-01-14
2 2022-05-29   119       2022-07-29        2022-03-29
3 2022-07-15   138       2022-09-15        2022-05-15

Notice that two new columns have been added to the data frame.