On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:33 +0530, d. sarthi maheshwari wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to take difference of two time objects. I want to fix the > result's unit to minutes. How can I do that? > > Here is an example: > > > difftime(x, y) > Time difference of 2.030720 hours > > difftime(x, z) > Time difference of 30.34672 mins > > where x = '2007-03-05 08:32:58' > y = '2007-03-05 06:31:07' > and z = '2007-03-05 08:02:37' > > How can I get answer something like > > for (x-y) > Time difference of 121.8432 mins > > and for (x-z) > Time difference of 30.34672 mins > > Kindly help.
See ?difftime and take note of the 'units' argument: > difftime(x, y, units = "mins") Time difference of 121.85 mins > difftime(x, z, units = "mins") Time difference of 30.35 mins HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list 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.
