openxlsx (version 2.0.15)

convertToDateTime: Convert from excel time number to R as.POSIXct

Description

Convert from excel time number to R as.POSIXct

Usage

convertToDateTime(x, origin = "1970-1-1")

Arguments

x

A numeric vector

origin

date. Default value is for Windows Excel 2010

Details

Excel stores dates as number of days from some origin day (this origin is "1970-1-1" for Excel 2010).

Examples

##2014 April 21st to 25th
x <- c(41821.8127314815, 41820.8127314815)
convertToDateTime(x)