type.convert: type.convert

In decisionpatterns/date.reader: This packages extends type.convert and read.table to automatically detect and coerce date fields to POSIX.

Description

type.convert

Usage

type.convert(x, ...)

Arguments

x	character;
...	list; extra arguments (from utils::type.convert, not used)

Value

a vector of parsed values. If values can be interpreted as dates, returns a POSIXct vector otherwise, the values from utils::type.convert

See Also

as.POSIXct

Examples

x <- type.convert( "2014-08-05" )
  x <- type.convert( c("2014-08-05", "2014-08-12") )
  x

  class(x)  # "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

decisionpatterns/date.reader documentation built on May 15, 2019, 1:55 a.m.