parse_unix_time: Function to conveniently parse a vector of unix time to a...

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Function to conveniently parse a vector of unix time to a POSIXct date vector.

Description

Function to conveniently parse a vector of unix time to a POSIXct date vector.

Usage

parse_unix_time(x, tz = "UTC", origin = "1970-01-01")

Arguments

x	An integer- or numeric-vector of unix times.
tz	Time-zone string. parse_unix_time defaults to "UTC".
origin	Origin of epoch. By definition, unix time is "1970-01-01", but other epochs are in use.

Value

A POSIXct vector with the length of x.

Author(s)

Stuart K. Grange

Examples

# A vector
unix_time_vector <- c(1460034000, 1460034703)

# Parse time, will be in UTC time-zone
parse_unix_time(unix_time_vector)

# Or in Berlin's time-zone
parse_unix_time(unix_time_vector, tz = "Europe/Berlin")

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