trunc.times: Truncate times Objects

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Truncate times Objects

Description

Truncate times objects.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'times'
trunc(x, units = "days", eps = 1e-10, ...)

Arguments

x	a "times" object.
units	Can be one of "days", "hours", "minutes", "seconds" or an unambiguous abbreviated version of any of those.
eps	Comparison tolerance. Times are considered equal if their absolute difference is less than eps.
...	further arguments to be passed to or from methods.

Details

The time is truncated to the second, minute, hour or day or to the value specified.

There is also a round method which has the same arguments as the trunc method, and performs rounding instead of truncation.

Value

An object of class "times".

See Also

trunc for the generic function and default methods.

Examples

tt <- times(c("12:13:14", "15:46:17"))
trunc(tt, "minutes")
trunc(tt, "min")
trunc(tt, times("00:01:00"))
trunc(tt, "00:01:00")
trunc(tt, 1/(24*60))

tt2 <- structure(c(3.0, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9), class = "times")
trunc(tt2, "day")
trunc(tt2)

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