timeInterval-methods: Create 'timeInterval' objects

In timeDate: Rmetrics - Chronological and Calendar Objects

Create 'timeInterval' objects

Description

Create objects from class "timeInterval".

Usage

timeInterval(left, right, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'timeDate,timeDate'
timeInterval(left, right,...)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY,ANY'
timeInterval(left, right, ...)             
## S4 method for signature 'timeInterval,missing'
timeInterval(left,right,...)

## S4 method for signature 'timeDate,missing'
timeInterval(left, right, units = "days", ...)    
## S4 method for signature 'Date,missing'
timeInterval(left,right, units = "days", ...)        
## S4 method for signature 'POSIXt,missing'
timeInterval(left,right, units = "days", ...)      
## S4 method for signature 'missing,Date'
timeInterval(left,right, units = "days", ...)        
## S4 method for signature 'missing,POSIXt'
timeInterval(left,right, units = "days", ...)      
## S4 method for signature 'missing,timeDate'
timeInterval(left,right, units = "days", ...)    

Arguments

left, right	left and right sides of the intervals, typically "timeDate" objects of equal length. See individual methods for other possibilities.
units	a character string specifying unit of time. Used only when left or right is missing, see section ‘Details’.
...	further arguments for methods.

Details

If both, left and right, are supplied they represent the edges of the intervals.

If only left is specified, each value represents the rounded time interval corresponding to argument units. For example, 2025-10-15 15:25:31 represents the interval [2025-10-15 15:00, 2025-10-15 16:00) when units = "mins" and [2025-10-15 00:00, 2025-10-16 00:00) when units = "days".

See trunc for admissible values of units and other details of the truncation.

Analogously, if only right is specified, its truncated value is used for the right edges of the intervals, while the left edges are obtained by subtracting one time unit from the right edges. In other word, each value in right represents the rounded time interval corresponding to the previous time unit. For example, 2025-10-15 15:25:31 represents the interval [2025-10-15 14:00, 2025-10-15 15:00) when units = "mins" and [2025-10-14 00:00, 2025-10-15 00:00) when units = "days", see also trunc.

Value

a "timeInterval" object

Methods

signature(left = "timeDate", right = "timeDate")

creates a "timeInterval" object as the union of intervals represented by [left[i],right[i]). The union is transformed to a canonical form with no overlaps between the intervals and no touching edges, see class "timeInterval". So the order and the number of intervals in the returned object may not be as in the input arguments.

signature(left = "ANY", right = "ANY")

the default method; the time interval is created from "timeDate" objects created from left and right using calls to timeDate. All "..." arguments are passed in both calls to timeDate.

signature(left = "timeDate", right = "missing")

signature(left = "Date", right = "missing")

signature(left = "POSIXt", right = "missing")

convert each element of left into an interval containing it and form the union. The left edge of each interval is trunc(left, units) and with corresponding right end timeCeiling(left, units). If a date-time is already rounded to units, then it is taken as the left end of the interval and its right end is the next rounded value.

signature(left = "missing", right = "timeDate")

signature(left = "missing", right = "Date")

signature(left = "missing", right = "POSIXt")

a time interval, aligned at unit, just to the left of the given date-times. For example, for unit = "days", the result is the day before.

signature(left = "timeInterval", right = "missing")

Author(s)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

See Also

class "timeInterval",

in_int for set operations on "timeInterval" objects

Examples

timeInterval(left = "2024-12-20", right = "2024-12-21")
timeInterval(left = "2024-12-20 10:00", right = "2024-12-21 11:00")

timeInterval(left = c("2024-12-20 10:00", "2024-12-22 10:00"),
             right = c("2024-12-21 11:00", "2024-12-23 11:00"))

## overlapping or touching intervals are combined
timeInterval(left = c("2024-12-20 10:00", "2024-12-21 10:00"),
             right = c("2024-12-21 11:00", "2024-12-23 11:00"))
timeInterval(left = c("2024-12-20 10:00", "2024-12-21 08:00"),
             right = c("2024-12-21 11:00", "2024-12-23 11:00"))

## create timeInterval by rounding down and up  times inside the desired unit
timeInterval(as.Date("2024-12-20"))
timeInterval(timeDate("2024-12-20 10:20:30"), unit = "days")
timeInterval(right = timeDate("2024-12-20 10:20:30"), unit = "days")

timeInterval(timeDate("2024-12-20 10:20:30"), unit = "hours")
timeInterval(right = timeDate("2024-12-20 10:20:30"), unit = "hours")

timeInterval(timeDate("2024-12-20 10:20:30"), unit = "mins")
timeInterval(right = timeDate("2024-12-20 10:20:30"), unit = "mins")

timeDate documentation built on Oct. 21, 2025, 3 a.m.