Convert between chronons

Convert between chronons

chronon_convert(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A linear time object (of class mt_linear)

to

The target chronon to convert to (a time unit object)

discrete

If TRUE, the number of target chronons since Unix epoch that x falls into is returned as an integer. If FALSE, a fractional number of target chronons is returned (analagous to time using a continuous time model).

Value

A numeric or integer representing the time since Unix epoch in terms of the target chronon's precision.

Examples

# Convert from months since epoch to years since epoch
chronon_convert(yearmonth(Sys.Date()), tu_year(1L))
#> Error in loadNamespace(x): there is no package called ‘vecvec’

# Convert from days since epoch to months since epoch
chronon_convert(Sys.Date(), tu_month(1L))
#> [1] 668.5161
chronon_convert(Sys.Date(), tu_month(1L), discrete = TRUE)
#> [1] 668

# Convert from seconds since epoch to hours since epoch
chronon_convert(Sys.time(), tu_hour(1L))
#> Error in if (start == end) {    return(start)}: missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed