Hi Allen,
I've been working on this problem (among others) with a grad student
this summer. You can see our work here -
http://github.com/hadley/lubridate/ - particularly in durations.r and
ops.durations.r.
Hadley
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Allen S. Rout <asr at ufl.edu>
wrote:>
> It seems that there are several folks Out There with an itch to
> scratch with respect to difftimes.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/19223/match=difftime
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/18441/match=difftime
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/10882/match=difftime
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/11675/match=difftime
>
> and I might be developing such an itch too.
>
>
> What would the R devel community want out of some one, or some group,
> attempting to fix some of these? ?Difftime seems just functional
> enough to be an attractive nuisance.
>
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout
>
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