R: Any to 'timeDate' Coercion

as.timeDate {timeDate} | R Documentation

## Any to 'timeDate' Coercion

### Description

Coerce and transform objects of class 'timeDate'.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.character(x, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.double(x,
        units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"), ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.data.frame(x, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.POSIXct(x, tz = "", ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.POSIXlt(x, tz = "", ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.Date(x, method = c("trunc", "round", "next"), ...)

    ## Default S3 method:
    as.timeDate(x, zone = "", FinCenter = "")

    ## S3 method for class 'POSIXt'
    as.timeDate(x, zone = "", FinCenter = "")

    ## S3 method for class 'Date'
    as.timeDate(x, zone = "", FinCenter = "")
    ## S3 method for class 'timeDate'
    as.timeDate(x, zone = x@FinCenter, FinCenter = "")

### Arguments

`FinCenter` | a character with the the location of the financial center named as "continent/city".
`method` | a character string denoting the method how to determine the dates.
`tz` | inputs the time zone to POSIX objects, i.e. the time zone, `zone`, or financial center string, `FinCenter`, as used by `timeDate` objects.
`units` | a character string denoting the date/time units in which the results are desired.
`x` | an object of class `timeDate`.
`zone` | the time zone or financial center where the data were recorded.
`...` | arguments passed to other methods.

### Value

`as.timeDate.POSIXt` returns an object of class `timeDate`.

`as.timeDate.Date` returns an object of class `timeDate`.

### Examples

    ## timeDate -
       tC = timeCalendar()

    ## Convert 'timeDate' to a character strings:
       as.character(tC)

    ## Coerce a 'Date' object into a 'timeDate' object:
       as.timeDate(Sys.Date())

[Package timeDate version 3012.100 Index]