Hy all,
I wish to use the date function to draw againt the lifetime of a motor.
This lifetime is given to me in Hours (it can go over 5000 hours)
I'm unable to find how to convert this lifetime value to something like
%H:%M:%S because when R see 24H it says 1 day, i don't want that, i just
The chron package has a times class that represents times in
days and fractions of a day. See the help desk article in R News 4/1
and the references therein for more info. Using times class
the following one-line function, hms, will display produce the
hours:mm:ss format:
library(chron)
hms -
In thinking about this some more here is an even shorter version of
hms. Note that %02.f produces at least 2 digits using leading
zeros to fill in if necessary and %5.5s truncates the string to the
first 5 characters (since our string is of the form mm:ss:hh and we only
need the mm:ss part).
