base-difftimeDate: Difference of two 'timeDate' objects

In timeDate: Rmetrics - Chronological and Calendar Objects

Difference of two 'timeDate' objects

Description

Returns the 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

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)])  

timeDate documentation built on Sept. 22, 2024, 5:07 p.m.