date_time_ {ThomasJeffersonUniv}

Concatenate Date and Time

Description

Concatenate date and time information from two objects.

Usage

date_time_(date_, time_)

Arguments

date_

an R object containing Date information

time_

an R object containing time (POSIXt) information

Details

Function date_time_ is useful as clinicians may put date and time in different columns.

Value

Function date_time_ returns a POSIXct object.

Examples

(today = Sys.Date())
(y = ISOdatetime(year = c(1899, 2010), month = c(12, 3), day = c(31, 22), 
  hour = c(15, 3), min = 2, sec = 1, tz = 'UTC'))
date_time_(today, y)