similar to: Adding difftime objects to POSIXt objects

Dear all, according to the Help-page of DateTimeClasses {base} I should be able to do time - z with time date-time objects z a numeric vector (in seconds) or an object of class "difftime". However, on R version 2.6.0 (Windows XP) I get > Sys.time() - as.difftime(c("0:3:20", "11:23:15")) Time differences in mins [1] 1191837998 1191837318

On the help page "DateTimeClasses {base}" it says: "One can add or subtract a number of seconds or a difftime object from a date-time object, but not add two date-time objects." However, > x<-Sys.time(); y<-Sys.time()+3600 > diff<-y-x > x; y; diff [1] "2005-11-23 19:58:20 GMT" [1] "2005-11-23 20:58:20 GMT" Time difference of 1 hours

Since both comparison and negation are well-defined for time differences, I wonder why abs and division are not defined for class difftime. This behavior is clearly documented on the man page: "limited arithmetic is available on 'difftime' objects"; but why? Both are natural, semantically sound, and useful operations and I see no obvious reason that they should give an error:

Since both comparison and negation are well-defined for time differences, I wonder why abs and division are not defined for class difftime. This behavior is clearly documented on the man page: "limited arithmetic is available on 'difftime' objects"; but why? Both are natural, semantically sound, and useful operations and I see no obvious reason that they should give an error:

I just encountered another RTFM problem: With diff(as.POSIXct(...), ...) I was unable to control the units of the results. Examples: > (d.d <- diff(as.POSIXct(c('2012-12-12', '2012-12-13')))) Time difference of 1 days > (d.h <- diff(as.POSIXct(c('2012-12-12 08:00', '2012-12-12 09:00')))) Time difference of 1 hours > (d.m <-

Hello all!!! I want to measure the duration of events (given a start and an end time). The catch is that I require the output in calender days. This means: 02-Jan-2011 00:01:00 minus 01-Jan-2011 23:59:00 should be 1 day (although the real time difference is only 2 minutes) My data is the following head(episode.ct) [1] "2009-07-13 13:37:20 CEST" "2009-07-14 07:29:20 CEST"

R-listers, I have noticed several posts on issues with difftime producing NA's but they have been for older versions of R. Here's the issue associated with difftime that I am dealing with in R 2.12.2. > preciptime = strptime("01/10/2007 14:00",format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M") > class(preciptime) [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" > # Now using difftime, this

Full_Name: Suharto Anggono Version: 2.8.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (125.165.81.48) There is already PR#13369. But, the problem is not just the warning. C:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.1\bin>R --vanilla R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome

Dear all, I have a vector generated using the function strptime: > my.dt [1] "2004-04-19 08:35:00 W. Europe Daylight Time" "2004-04-19 09:35:00 W. Europe Daylight Time" "2004-04-19 11:35:00 W. Europe Daylight Time" [4] "2004-04-19 13:35:00 W. Europe Daylight Time" "2004-04-20 07:50:00 W. Europe Daylight Time" > class(my.dt) [1]

There seems to be a problem in the way `+` is dispatched for POSIXt/difftime (R 2.8.0 Windows). With the following definitions: t0 <- as.POSIXct('2009-01-01 00:00') halfhour.mins <- as.difftime(30,units='mins') I would have thought that the straightforward answer to Suresh's question would be something like t0 + halfhour.mins * (0:47) And indeed, if we

Hi. I'm trying to take the difference in days between two times. Can you point out what's wrong, or suggest a different function? When I try the following code, The following code works fine: a <- strptime(1911100807,format="%Y%m%d%H",tz="GMT") b <- strptime(1911102718,format="%Y%m%d%H",tz="GMT") x <- difftime(b, a,

I am sorry to reply. But I need to clarify things.=0A=0AFrom searching over= the internet, I know that, before R 2.5.0, in the documentation of 'DateTi= meClasses', in 'date + x', in the explanation about 'x', there is also ment= ion that 'x' can be a 'difftime' object. Now, it has been removed.=0A=0AWhy= not doing the same in the documentation of

I want to find the DOY (Day of Year) of some dates. I think to substract the date 1. January from the data to achive this. Something like: > d <- as.Date("2006-03-13") - as.Date("2006-01-01") +1 > d Time difference of 72 days So far so good. But d is a 'difftime' object. How do I get an Integer value from that? I tried severel things, incuding the

Hi all, I need to compare time series data files of different time formats. I had no problems with text format using strptime. But how can I convert datetime numbers from Excel (days since 30.12.1899 00:00:00) into POSIXt objects? For example 29770.375 should be converted to "03.07.1981 09:00:00" I tried the following code and encountered strange results: t1-t0 gives 29770.33

I have just become painfully aware that objects of class "difftime", generated by the difference of two POSIXct objects, carry a "units" attribute, which flashes by when the object is printed, for example. The pain was occasioned when I tried to turn these objects into numberic objects for use elsewhere as a covariate. as.numeric(difftime object) simply turns off the units

Dear R-Users, I have a data file with timestamps and I wanted to use POSIXct time data type to represent the respective column. I played around with the type and found a couple of issues: * there seems to be no direct way of reading datetimes into a variable. Let's say this is my file "1992-02-27 23:03:20 PST" "1992-02-27 22:29:56 PST" "1992-01-14 01:03:30 PST"

I am having a series of problems using date time data that has been converted into a POSIXt and POSIXlt classes. I have hourly time series data from 1900 that has been converted from text data. I assume most of my problems come from a mis-underdanding of the POSIX class. My matrix named (aa) for this year is approx 8700 by 4. When I try to calculate the length of posit column ( which is the

I am a beginner in R with a background in SAS. Are there built-in R methods of reading dates for calculating elapsed days between two calendar dates? If so, are there any examples I can browse? Thanks in anticipation. John Byrne. Lecturer in Information Systems. Australian Catholic University.

I like the new difftime functionality. Here's a dataframe of 5k run times: > r5k race date totaltime pace mile 1 RUDOLPH 2004-12-03 19:00:00 27.76667 mins 8.937224 mins 3.106856 2 RUDOLPH 2005-12-02 18:30:00 25.28333 mins 8.137916 mins 3.106856 3 FROSTBITE 2005-12-10 07:00:00 24.75000 mins 7.966253 mins 3.106856 4 JUDICATA 2006-03-04

I have a problem ordering by descending magnitude a POSIXt object. Can someone help please and let me know how to work around this. My goal is to be able to order my data by DATE and then by descending TIME. I have tried to include as much info as possible below. The problem stems from trying to read in times from a CSV file. I have converted the character time values to a POSIXt object using the