calendar {aion}

Calendar

Description

Calendar

Usage

calendar(object)

## S4 method for signature 'character'
calendar(object)

Arguments

object

A character string specifying the abbreviated label of the time scale (see details) or an object from which to extract the time scale.

Details

The following time scales are available:

label	era	calendar
BP	Before Present	Gregorian
BC	Before Christ	Gregorian
BCE	Before Common Era	Gregorian
AD	Anno Domini	Gregorian
CE	Common Era	Gregorian
b2k	Years before 2000	Gregorian
julian		Julian

Value

A TimeScale object.

Note

Inspired by era::era() by Joe Roe.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

See Also

Other calendar tools: calendar_get, convert(), gregorian, is(), julian()

Examples

## Define time scales
calendar("BP")
calendar("AD")
calendar("julian")

## Shortcuts
BP()
AD()
J()