stri_datetime_create {stringi}

Create a Date-Time Object

Description

Constructs date-time objects from numeric representations.

Usage

stri_datetime_create(
  year = NULL,
  month = NULL,
  day = NULL,
  hour = 0L,
  minute = 0L,
  second = 0,
  lenient = FALSE,
  tz = NULL,
  locale = NULL
)

Arguments

year

integer vector; 0 is 1BCE, -1 is 2BCE, etc.; NULL for the current year

month

integer vector; months are 1-based; NULL for the current month

day

integer vector; NULL for the current day

hour

integer vector; NULL for the current hour

minute

integer vector; NULL for the current minute

second

numeric vector; fractional seconds are allowed; NULL for the current seconds (without milliseconds)

lenient

single logical value; should the operation be lenient?

tz

NULL or '' for the default time zone or a single string with time zone identifier, see stri_timezone_list

locale

NULL or '' for default locale, or a single string with locale identifier; a non-Gregorian calendar may be specified by setting @calendar=name keyword

Details

Vectorized over year, month, day, hour, hour, minute, and second.

Value

Returns an object of class POSIXct.

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other datetime: stri_datetime_add(), stri_datetime_fields(), stri_datetime_format(), stri_datetime_fstr(), stri_datetime_now(), stri_datetime_symbols(), stri_timezone_get(), stri_timezone_info(), stri_timezone_list()

Examples

stri_datetime_create(2015, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59.999)
stri_datetime_create(5775, 8, 1, locale='@calendar=hebrew')  # 1 Nisan 5775 -> 2015-03-21
stri_datetime_create(2015, 02, 29)
stri_datetime_create(2015, 02, 29, lenient=TRUE)
stri_datetime_create(hour=15, minute=59)