R: Return Hours, Minutes, or Seconds from a Times Object

hours {chron} | R Documentation

## Return Hours, Minutes, or Seconds from a Times Object

### Description

Given a chron or times object, extract the hours, minutes or seconds of the time it represents.

### Usage

    hours(x)
    minutes(x)
    seconds(x)

### Arguments

`x` | an object inheriting from class `"times"`, or coercible to such via `as.chron`.

### Value

the corresponding time period as an ordered factor.

### See Also

`chron`, `dates`, `times`

### Examples

    x <- chron(dates = c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92"),
               times = c("23:03:20", "22:29:56", "01:03:30", "18:21:03"))
    h <- hours(x)
    y <- runif(4)
    boxplot(y ~ h)

[Package chron version 2.3-53 Index]