| dates {chron} | R Documentation |
Create objects which represent dates or times.
dates(x, ...) times(x, ...)
x |
a chron object, a character vector, or a numeric vector
specifying time. If character, it must be in a format recognized by
chron(). If numeric, it specifies Julian dates, i.e., number
of days since an origin. |
... |
parameters for chron(). |
An object of class dates or times, depending of the
function called.
These functions return objects inheriting from dates and times,
respectively. They call chron() if x does not belong to
any of the chronological classes.
chron,
times,
seq.dates,
cut.dates
dts <- dates(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92",
"02/28/92", "02/01/92"))
dts
# [1] 02/27/92 02/27/92 01/14/92 02/28/92 02/01/92
class(dts)
x <- chron(dates = c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92"),
times = c("23:03:20", "22:29:56", "01:03:30", "18:21:03"))
dates(x)
# [1] 02/27/92 02/27/92 01/14/92 02/28/92