as.timeDate {timeDate}

Coercion from/to 'timeDate'

Description

Coerce and transform objects of class "timeDate".

Usage

## methods for base R functions
## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.character(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.double(x, 
    units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.data.frame(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.POSIXct(x, tz = "", ...)

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.POSIXlt(x, tz = "", ...)

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.Date(x, method = c("trunc", "round", "next"), ...)

## methods for as.timeDate
## Default S3 method:
as.timeDate(x, zone = "", FinCenter = "")  

## S3 method for class 'POSIXt'
as.timeDate(x, zone = "", FinCenter = "")

## S3 method for class 'Date'
as.timeDate(x, zone = "", FinCenter = "")

## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
as.timeDate(x, zone = x@FinCenter, FinCenter = "")  

Arguments

FinCenter

a character with the location of the financial center named as "continent/city".

method

a character string denoting the method how to determine the dates.

tz

inputs the time zone to POSIX objects, i.e. the time zone, zone, or financial center string, FinCenter, as used by "timeDate" objects.

units

a character string denoting the date/time units in which the results are desired.

x

an object of class "timeDate".

zone

the time zone or financial center where the data were recorded.

...

arguments passed to other methods.

Value

for as.timeDate.POSIXt, an object of class "timeDate",

for as.timeDate.Date, an object of class "timeDate"

Examples

## timeDate - 
   tC = timeCalendar()

## Convert 'timeDate' to a character strings:
   as.character(tC)
   
## Coerce a 'Date' object into a 'timeDate' object:
   as.timeDate(Sys.Date())