Message-ID: <20160808105611.Horde.oKASgQXZFf49ugkyjX-BEIl@mail.sapo.pt>
Date: 2016-08-08T09:56:11Z
From: Rui Barradas
Subject: No "number of days" format for 'difftime'?
In-Reply-To: <87k2frppnm.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Hello,
You're missing a double quotes. Right after format=
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
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Citando Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>:
> Hi,
>
> When I try
>
> d <- as.difftime("6-08:18:33",format=%d-%H:%M:%S")
>
> I get:
>
> Error: unexpected SPECIAL in "as.difftime("6-08:18:33",format=%d-%"
>
> Am I correct in thinking that it is not possible to do something like
> this, because there is no character string for the format which
> corresponds to "number of days"?
>
> I could misuse "%j" for "day of the year as a decimal number", but
> ultimately the "difftime" object is still a data, rather than a length
> of time and I should be looking at a package like 'lubridate' instead.
> Is that the case?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> --
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
> ZEDAT, Freie Universit?t Berlin? ? ? ? ?Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>
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