[R] No "number of days" format for 'difftime'?
Loris Bennett
loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
Mon Aug 8 13:19:03 CEST 2016
Thanks for the link, John. However, there is a hyphen missing. It
should be:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-read-errors-and-warnings-in-r.html
Appropriately, with the correct URL we find the too often forgotten
pearl of wisdom:
"Chances are, you just typed something wrong there."
I think I need this on my coffee cup.
Cheers,
Loris
John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> writes:
> http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-read-errors and-warnings-in-r.html
> If something goes wrong with your code, R tells you. We have to admit
> it: These error messages can range from mildly confusing to completely
> incomprehensible if you’re not used to them.
>
>
> fortune(350) regarding the on-line help is also inspiring
>
> You need to get the hang of reading the online help. The information
> required is actually therein ?dotchart --- it's just tersely and
> obscurely expressed. A certain degree of optimism is required. You
> need to ***believe*** that the information is there; then ask yourself
> "What could they possibly mean by what they have written that would
> tell me what I need to know?".
> -- Rolf Turner (on reading the help pages)
> R-help (June 2013)
>
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>> Sent: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 12:07:43 +0200
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] No "number of days" format for 'difftime'?
>>
>> 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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>>>> loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>>>>
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