[R] No "number of days" format for 'difftime'?

[Loris Bennett]

Hi,

I was probably misled by the, to my mind, esoteric error message into
thinking the error was more subtle.  Something like "unmatched quotes"
might have helped me recognise that I was just being dopey.

Thanks to John and Rui.

Loris

<ruipbarradas at sapo.pt> writes:

> Hello,
>
> You're missing a double quotes. Right after format=
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>  
>
> 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
>>
>> --
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>> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
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