Difference of two 'timeDate' objects — difftimeDate • timeDate

Returns the difference of two 'timeDate' objects.

Usage

difftimeDate(time1, time2, 
    units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"))

Arguments

time1, time2: two objects objects of class "timeDate".
units: a character string denoting the date/time units in which the results are desired.

Value

The function, difftimeDate, takes a difference of two

"timeDate" objects and returns an object of class

"difftime" with an attribute indicating the units.

Examples

## Create Character Vectors:
   dts = c("1989-09-28", "2001-01-15", "2004-08-30", "1990-02-09")
   dts
#> [1] "1989-09-28" "2001-01-15" "2004-08-30" "1990-02-09"
   
## timeDate - 
   GMT = timeDate(dts, zone = "GMT", FinCenter = "GMT") 
   GMT
#> GMT
#> [1] [1989-09-28] [2001-01-15] [2004-08-30] [1990-02-09]

## diff - 
   # Suitably Lagged and Iterated Differences:
   difftimeDate(GMT[1:2], GMT[-(1:2)])  
#> Time differences in days
#> [1] -5450  3993