thank you! this really helps!

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com> wrote:

> ?strptime
>
> Read the documentation and you will find reference to "%OSn"
>
> > x <- strptime('13:45:34.123', format="%H:%M:%OS")
> > x
> [1] "2010-04-22 13:45:34"
> > format(x, format="%H:%M:%OS3")
> [1] "13:45:34.123"
> >
>
>
>   On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Carol Gao <carol.gaox@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know how to take a time difference when the format of the time
>> is as 13:22:23.586? I am trying to take the difference of time between
>> stock
>> transactions and need to keep the three decimal places for seconds. I have
>> tried *diff(strptime(x, "%H:%M:%S.000))*, but apperantly that doesn't
>> work.
>>
>> Carol Gao
>>
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