text2times: Parses a text string for time information.

In RDSTK: An R wrapper for the Data Science Toolkit API

Description

This function take a text string and returns any time-specific information that it finds.

Usage

text2times(text, session=getCurlHandle())

Arguments

text	A text string containing possible time information.
session	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

Value

A data.frame containing

duration	Length of time in seconds of the recognized event.
start_index	The beginning of the matched string in the original string.
is_relative	Logical value for matched string.
end_index	The end of the matched string in the original string.
time_seconds	The unix timestamp of the event (time since epoch).
matched_string	The string that was used in the processing of the request.
time_string	The time string of the recognized time event.

Author(s)

Ryan Elmore

References

text2times

See Also

curlPerform, getCurlHandle, dynCurlReader

Examples

	## Not run: 
		text <- "02/01/2010, Meeting this Wednesday"
		text2times(text)
	
## End(Not run)

RDSTK documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:49 a.m.