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R: Combine date and time to obtain date-time in POSIX format
combine.date.and.timeR Documentation

Combine date and time to obtain date-time in POSIX format

Description

Combine date and time to obtain date-time in POSIX format

Usage

combine.date.and.time(date, time)

Arguments

date

Date in Date format or as character string in format “YYYY-MM-DD”.

time

Time as list with hours (hrs), minutes (mins), and seconds (secs) components or as character string in format HH:MM:SS (with hours ranging from 00-23).

Value

A date-time in R's POSIX class.

Note

This function is called by get.datetime.seq, get.M3.var, and var.subset, but it will probably not be called by most users.

Author(s)

Jenise Swall

See Also

DateTimeClasses, strptime

Examples

## This function can accept dates as a character string:
combine.date.and.time(date="2011-05-03", time="16:15:30")

## Or, the dates can be in R's Date format.
combine.date.and.time(date=as.Date("2011-05-03"), time="16:15:30")

## The time can also be given as a list:
combine.date.and.time(date="2011-05-03", time=list(hrs=16, mins=15, secs=30))

Results


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> library(M3)
Loading required package: ncdf4
Loading required package: rgdal
Loading required package: sp
rgdal: version: 1.1-10, (SVN revision 622)
 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
 Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.11.3, released 2015/09/16
 Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/share/gdal/1.11
 Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.9.2, 08 September 2015, [PJ_VERSION: 492]
 Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
 Linking to sp version: 1.2-3 
Loading required package: maps

 # maps v3.1: updated 'world': all lakes moved to separate new #
 # 'lakes' database. Type '?world' or 'news(package="maps")'.  #


Loading required package: mapdata
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/M3/combine.date.and.time.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: combine.date.and.time
> ### Title: Combine date and time to obtain date-time in POSIX format
> ### Aliases: combine.date.and.time
> ### Keywords: chron
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> ### ** Examples
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> ## This function can accept dates as a character string:
> combine.date.and.time(date="2011-05-03", time="16:15:30")
[1] "2011-05-03 16:15:30 GMT"
> 
> ## Or, the dates can be in R's Date format.
> combine.date.and.time(date=as.Date("2011-05-03"), time="16:15:30")
[1] "2011-05-03 16:15:30 GMT"
> 
> ## The time can also be given as a list:
> combine.date.and.time(date="2011-05-03", time=list(hrs=16, mins=15, secs=30))
[1] "2011-05-03 16:15:30 GMT"
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