difftimeDate {timeDate}R Documentation

Difference of two 'timeDate' Objects

Description

Returns a difference of two 'timeDate' objects.

Usage

difftimeDate(time1, time2, 
    units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"))

Arguments

time1, time2

two objects objects of class timeDate.

units

a character string denoting the date/time units in which the results are desired.

Value

The function, difftimeDate, takes a difference of two timeDate objects and returns an object of class "difftime" with an attribute indicating the units.

Examples

## Create Character Vectors:
   dts = c("1989-09-28", "2001-01-15", "2004-08-30", "1990-02-09")
   dts
   
## timeDate - 
   GMT = timeDate(dts, zone = "GMT", FinCenter = "GMT") 
   GMT

## diff - 
   # Suitably Lagged and Iterated Differences:
   difftimeDate(GMT[1:2], GMT[-(1:2)])
[Package timeDate version 2160.95 Index]