dateTOmillisecond {RWildbook}

Transform a vector of date to a vector of millisecond.

Description

This function is to transform a period of time in date to millisecond according to the origin date and the format of date.

Usage

dateTOmillisecond(date, origin = "1970-01-01", format = "%Y-%m-%d",
  interval = TRUE)

Arguments

date

A character vector represent a period of time from date[1] to date[2].

origin

A point of time which set to be zero in millisecond.

format

A format for date and origin arguments.

interval

A logical argument which equals to TRUE by default when the function transfer an period of dates to millisecond. When interval=FALSE, the function returns the last minute of every elements of date to millisecons.

Details

A vector of size two represent a period of time. The start date of the period will be transform to the first millisecond of the date and the end of the period to the last millisecond.