translateSPSS2R (version 1.0.0)

computeCtime_hours: Calculates the difference between two dates in hours

Description

R Implementation of the SPSS CTIME.HOURS Function. computeCtime_hours is a helper function for xpssCompute.

Usage

computeCtime_hours(x,date)

Arguments

x

atomic object of class character, POSIXlt or POSIXt holding date data

date

atomic object of class character, POSIXlt or POSIXt holding date data

Value

Returns the difference between date and x in hours.

Details

The input format of date's with timeparameter's is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. All parameters are necessary to calculate the hour difference!

See Also

difftime DateTimeClasses as.POSIXlt strptime

Examples

xpssCompute(x="2013-09-14 12:12:12", fun="computeCtime_hours", date="2013-09-14 10:10:10")
xpssCompute(x="2013-09-14 12:12:12", fun="computeCtime_hours", date="2013-09-06 22:10:10")