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Get Units

Source: R/units.R
dtt_units.Rd

Gets the smallest units for a date time vector. The possible values are 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours', 'days', 'months' or 'years'.

Usage

dtt_units(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'Date'
dtt_units(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'POSIXct'
dtt_units(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'hms'
dtt_units(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A Date, POSIXct or hms vector.

...

Unused.

Value

A string indicating the date time units.

Methods (by class)

  • dtt_units(Date): Get time units for a Date vector

  • dtt_units(POSIXct): Get time units for a POSIXct vector

  • dtt_units(hms): Get time units for a hms vector

See also

Other units: dtt_adjust_units(), dtt_units_per_unit()

Examples

dtt_units(as.Date("2000-01-01"))
#> [1] "years"
dtt_units(as.Date("2000-02-01"))
#> [1] "months"
dtt_units(as.Date("2000-01-02"))
#> [1] "days"