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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.