R: Generate Dates and Times Components from Input

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## Generate Dates and Times Components from Input

### Description

Create objects which represent dates or times.

### Usage

    dates(x, ...)
    times(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | a chron object, a character vector, or a numeric vector specifying time. If character, it must be in a format recognized by `chron()`. If numeric, it specifies Julian dates, i.e., number of days since an origin.
`...` | parameters for `chron()`.

### Value

An object of class `dates` or `times`, depending of the function called.

These functions return objects inheriting from dates and times, respectively. They call `chron()` if `x` does not belong to any of the chronological classes.

### See Also

`chron`, `times`, `seq.dates`, `cut.dates`

### Examples

    dts <- dates(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92",
                   "02/28/92", "02/01/92"))
    dts
    # [1] 02/27/92 02/27/92 01/14/92 02/28/92 02/01/92
    class(dts)

    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"))
    dates(x)
    # [1] 02/27/92 02/27/92 01/14/92 02/28/92

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