crimelinkage (version 0.0.3)

getDateTime: Creates date-time objects for censored crime data

Description

Takes censored crime data with separate date and time fields, attempts to repair bad or missing entries, and creates date-time objects.

Usage

getDateTime(DATE_FROM, TIME_FROM, DATE_TO, TIME_TO, tz = "")

Arguments

DATE_FROM

vector of earliest start dates for crimes

TIME_FROM

vector of earliest start times for crimes

DATE_TO

vector of latest end dates for crimes

TIME_TO

vector of latest end times for crimes

tz

timezone

Value

• data frame with date-time (POSIXlt) fields: DT.FROM, DT.TO corresponding to the time range of (possibly) censored crime events

Details

• times must be in format:%H%M
• dates must be in format:%Y-%m-%d

See Also

fixDateTime

Examples

getDateTime("2014-03-20","1530","2014-03-22","0310")