lubridate (version 1.5.6)

hms: Create a period with the specified hours, minutes, and seconds

Description

Transforms a character or numeric vector into a period object with the specified number of hours, minutes, and seconds. hms() recognizes all non-numeric characters except '-' as separators ('-' is used for negative durations). After hours, minutes and seconds have been parsed, the remaining input is ingored.

Usage

hms(..., quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

...

a character vector of hour minute second triples

quiet

logical. When TRUE function evalueates without displaying customary messages.

Value

a vector of period objects

See Also

hm, ms

Examples

x <- c("09:10:01", "09:10:02", "09:10:03")
hms(x)
## [1] "9H 10M 1S" "9H 10M 2S" "9H 10M 3S"

hms("7 6 5", "3:23:::2", "2 : 23 : 33", "Finished in 9 hours, 20 min and 4 seconds")
## [1] "7H 6M 5S" "3H 23M 2S" "2H 23M 33S" "9H 20M 4S"