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 -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.