timeDate (version 290.84)

timeSequence: Regularly spaced 'timeDate' objects

Description

Create a regularly spaced object of class 'timeDate'.

Usage

timeSequence(from, to = Sys.timeDate(), 
    by = c("day", "year", "quarter", "month", "week", "hour", "min", "sec"),
    length.out = NULL, format = NULL,
    zone = "", FinCenter = "")
## S3 method for class 'timeDate':
seq(from, to, by, length.out = NULL, along.with = NULL, \dots)

Arguments

from, to

starting date, required, and end date, optional. If supplied to must be after from.

by

a character string, containing one of "sec", "min", "hour", "day", "week", "month" or "year". This can optionally be preceded by an integer and a space, or followed by "s".

length.out

length.out integer, optional. Desired length of the sequence, if specified "to" will be ignored.

along.with

Take the length from the length of this argument.

format

the format specification of the input character vector.

zone

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

FinCenter

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

...

arguments passed to other methods.

Value

• returns a S4 object of class "timeDate".

Examples

## timeSequence -
   
   timeSequence(from = "2004-03-12", to = "2004-04-11",
        format = "%Y-%m-%d", FinCenter = "GMT")
        
   timeSequence(from = "2004-03-12", to = "2004-04-11",
        format = "%Y-%m-%d", FinCenter = "Europe/Zurich")