printing difftime summary

Hi,

* arun <fznegcvax111 at lnubb.pbz> [2012-11-21 14:04:36 -0800]:

Are you looking for some other function (difftime2string)
ot just remove the quotes from the printed output?

I am wondering what others do when they want to see a summary of difftime.

If it is the latter, then this should do it.
res<-do.call(data.frame,lapply(s,difftime2string))
 names(res)<-names(s)
 res
#       Min.   1st Qu.    Median     Mean  3rd Qu.      Max.
#1 500.00 ms 17.12 min 99.48 min 8.30 hrs 8.05 hrs 6.98 days

cool, thanks.
I now think that what I want is
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
difftime.summary <- function (v) {
  s <- summary(as.numeric(v))
  r <- as.data.frame(sapply(s,difftime2string),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
  names(r) <- c("string")
  r[[units(v)]] <- s
  r
}

difftime.summary(infl$delay)

           string     secs
Min.    500.00 ms      0.5
1st Qu. 17.12 min   1027.0
Median  99.48 min   5969.0
Mean     8.30 hrs  29870.0
3rd Qu.  8.05 hrs  28970.0
Max.    6.98 days 603100.0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


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