[R] How to deal with thousands of seconds in R?

[Agustin Lobo]

Sorry for the typo, I meant thousandths, and thanks for pointing out
the %OS format, which I had overlooked
Agus


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 09:54, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>
>> If I do:
>>>
>>> a
>>
>> [1] "2012_10_01_14_13_32.445"
>>>
>>> a2
>>
>> [1] "2012_10_01_14_13_32.500"
>>>
>>>
>>> strptime(a,format="%Y_%M_%d_%H_%M_%S")-strptime(a2,format="%Y_%M_%d_%H_%M_%S")
>>
>> Time difference of 0 secs
>>
>> Is there any time object in R that would deal with thousands of seconds?
>
>
> Did you mean milliseconds, that is 1/1000th of a second?  If so, see the
> help for the function you used:
>
>      ‘%S’ Second as decimal number (00-61), allowing for up to two
>           leap-seconds (but POSIX-compliant implementations will ignore
>           leap seconds).
>
>      Specific to R is ‘%OSn’, which for output gives the seconds
>      truncated to ‘0 <= n <= 6’ decimal places (and if ‘%OS’ is not
>      followed by a digit, it uses the setting of
>      ‘getOption("digits.secs")’, or if that is unset, ‘n = 3’).
>      Further, for ‘strptime’ ‘%OS’ will input seconds including
>      fractional seconds.  Note that ‘%S’ ignores (and not rounds)
>      fractional parts on output.
>
> strptime(a,format="%Y_%M_%d_%H_%M_%OS")-strptime(a2,format="%Y_%M_%d_%H_%M_%OS")
> Time difference of -0.05500007 secs
>
> (Note that a is not a binary fraction, so some representation error is
> expected.)
>
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