[R] help regarding storing time difference values in same unit?

[jim holtman]

If you are using 'difftime', you can specify the units:

> x <- as.POSIXct(c('2009-01-01 10:00', '2009-03-04 13:00'))
> x
[1] "2009-01-01 10:00:00 GMT" "2009-03-04 13:00:00 GMT"
> difftime(x[2], x[1])
Time difference of 62.125 days

> difftime(x[2], x[1], units='secs')
Time difference of 5367600 secs
>


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Suresh_FSFM <suresh.ghalsasi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R-Experts,
>
> Seek your help.
>
> In a List object e.g. Time_duration[[]], I am storing differece between two
> time-stamps (start-time and end-time) for a certain event.
> Time difference does not remain constant for, say, 10 observations.
> Each time, the time difference is given in different time units: seconds /
> hours / minutes.
> Can you please tell me - how I can store the values of time difference in
> just one time unit ?
> It can be either seconds, or minutes or hours. The criterion is - unit
> should be consistent.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Suresh
>
>
>
>
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