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mapcar on Nov 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rvest: Easy web scraping with R

Hi Hadley, yes for instance

> as.chron("1970-01-01")+unclass(as.chron("2001-04-01")) [1] 04/01/01

> as.POSIXct("1970-01-01","EST")+unclass(as.POSIXct("2014-06-01","EST")) [1] "2014-06-01 05:00:00 EST"

If there is any conversion necessary it is difficult to get back the original intended time.

hadley on Nov 26, 2014 [–]

What does adding two dates together mean?

mapcar on Nov 26, 2014 | [–]

Isn't this the conventional way of converting variables which have been coerced to their numeric representations back to time/date classes?

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