Look at some of these functions...
DateTimeClasses(base) Date-Time Classes
as.POSIXct(base) Date-time Conversion Functions
cut.POSIXt(base) Convert a Date or Date-Time Object to a Factor
format.Date(base) Date Conversion Functions to and from Character
Mark
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Matthew Walker wrote:> Hello everyone,
>
> Can anyone tell me what function I should use to read time/date strings
> and turn them into a form such that I can easily calculate the
> difference of two? The strings I've got look like "10:17:07 02
Aug
> 2007". If I could calculate the number of seconds between them
I'd be
> very happy!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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