computeCtime_minutes: Calculates the difference between two dates in minutes

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Description

R Implementation of the SPSS CTIME.MINUTES Function.computeCtime_minutes is a helper function for xpssCompute.

Usage

computeCtime_minutes(x,date)

Arguments

x	atomic object of class character, POSIXlt or POSIXt holding date data
date	atomic object of class character, POSIXlt or POSIXt holding date data

Details

The input format of date's with timeparameter's is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. All parameters are necessary to calculate the minute difference!

Value

Returns the difference between x and date in minutes.

Author(s)

Bastian Wiessner

See Also

difftime DateTimeClasses as.POSIXlt strptime

Examples

xpssCompute(x="2013-09-14 12:12:12", fun="computeCtime_minutes", date="2013-09-14 10:10:10")
xpssCompute(x="2013-09-14 12:12:12", fun="computeCtime_minutes", date="2013-09-06 22:10:10")

translateSPSS2R documentation built on May 30, 2017, 4:31 a.m.