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 <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> writes: > Hello, > > You're missing a double quotes. Right after format= > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > > Citando Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@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 >> >> -- >> 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.htmland provide commented, >> minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- 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.