[R] Converting character values to time values when no date information is present XXXX

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abner99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am familiar with using the chron package to work with date/time
> values, but what about just time values with no date info present?
> What is the best tool to convert character values to time values when
> no date info is present?
>

The "times" class in the chron package handles times.

> library(chron)
> times(.5)
[1] 12:00:00
> times(.5) + times("01:00:00")
[1] 13:00:00
> times("01:00:00") + 1
Time in days:
[1] 1.041667


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