Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data
Description
Fast general purpose parser for date(time) from input data
Usage
chronos(x, formats = NULL, tz = "", to_tz = "", out_format = "datetime")
chronos(x, formats = NULL, tz = "", to_tz = "", out_format = "datetime")
Arguments
x |
A vector with date(time) expressions to be parsed and converted.
|
formats |
character vector of formats to try out (see base::strptime).
If NULL, uses a set of predefined formats mostly taken from the anytime package.
|
tz |
assumed input timezone. If "", uses local timezone. See details
|
to_tz |
convert datetime to timezone given in to_tz. If "", tz is used.
See details
|
out_format |
character. Defining the format of the returned result.
Can be "datetime", "date", or "character".
|
Details
The internal parsing is done "timezoneless". The timezone given in
tz is just added to the datetime without any conversion. If to_tz is given, a
conversion is made from tz to to_tz.
Value
A character vector which can be transformed to POSIXct or date
See Also
parse_datetime, parse_date, and parse_epoch if you need more control over formatting
Examples
chronos(bench_date)
chronos(bench_date)
, Rollie Ma [ctb, cph]
(author of dateparser :
<https://github.com/waltzofpearls/dateparser>), Brandon W.
Maister [ctb, cph] (author of chrono :
<https://github.com/chronotope/chrono>), Dirkjan Ochtman [ctb,
cph] (author of chrono :
<https://github.com/chronotope/chrono>), Seonghoon Kang [ctb,
cph] (author of chrono :
<https://github.com/chronotope/chrono>), Eric Sheppard [ctb,
cph] (author of chrono :
<https://github.com/chronotope/chrono>), Paul Dicker [ctb, cph]
(author of chrono : <https://github.com/chronotope/chrono>)