time_to_numeric {rbi.helpers}

Convert actual times or dates to numeric times

Description

This function converts from real times/dates to numeric times (0, 1, 2, ...)

Usage

time_to_numeric(x, origin, unit)

Arguments

x

a data frame containing a "time" column, or a list containing such data frames

origin

the time origin, i.e. the date or time corresponding to time 0

unit

the unit of time that each time step corresponds to; this must be a unit understood by lubridate::period, optionally with a number in advance, e.g. "day" or "2 weeks" or "3 seconds"

Value

a list of data frames that can be passed to libbi