help_parseDateTime: parse to Date or Date.Time objects.

In JBrenn/Helper4me:

Description

parse character vector to Date (base::as.Date) or Date.Time (base::as.POSIXct or chron::chron) objects.

Usage

help_parseDateTime(x.date, x.time, format = list(date = "%Y-%m-%d",
  time = "%H:%M:%S"), parse.to = "chron", fasttime = FALSE,
  timezone = "GMT")

Arguments

x.date	date character vector.
x.time	time character vector.
format	list containing datetime format, default: list(date=..., time=...), if format$time = NULL date representation (as.Date) will be used for parsing.
parse.to	specifying datetime representation, that will be used for parsing, either chron (default) or as.POSIXct.
timezone	timezone only necessary if POSIX representation used, default "GMT"

Value

date or date.time object

Author(s)

Johannes Brenner [e-mail]

Examples

x.time <- c("00:20:00", "00:40:00", "01:00:00")
x.date <- rep("2012-01-01", 3)

# chron representation
help_parseDateTime(x.date, x.time, parse.to="chron")

# POSIX representation
help_parseDateTime(x.date, x.time, parse.to="POSIX",
                   timezone="GMT")

# Date representation
help_parseDateTime(x.date, x.time=NULL)

JBrenn/Helper4me documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:49 a.m.