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Checks whether a vector can be coerced to a lubridate::Period without losing information, returning it silently if so. Otherwise an informative error message is signaled.

Usage

to_dur(
  x,
  ...,
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

to_duration(
  x,
  ...,
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

# S3 method for class '`NULL`'
to_dur(x, ..., allow_null = TRUE, x_arg = caller_arg(x), call = caller_env())

# S3 method for class 'Period'
to_dur(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'character'
to_dur(
  x,
  ...,
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

# S3 method for class 'factor'
to_dur(
  x,
  ...,
  x_arg = caller_arg(x),
  call = caller_env(),
  x_class = object_type(x)
)

# S3 method for class 'difftime'
to_dur(x, ..., call = caller_env())

# S3 method for class 'numeric'
to_dur(x, ..., call = caller_env())

# S3 method for class 'integer'
to_dur(x, ..., call = caller_env())

Arguments

x

The object to stabilize.

...

Arguments passed to methods.

x_arg

(character(1)) The name of the object being stabilized to use in error messages. The automatic value will work in most cases, or pass it through from higher-level functions to make error messages clearer in unexported functions.

call

(environment) The execution environment to mention as the source of error messages.

x_class

(character(1)) The class name of the object being stabilized to use in error messages. Use this if you remove a special class from the object before checking its coercion, but want the error message to match the original class.

allow_null

(logical(1)) Is NULL an acceptable value?

Value

The input as a lubridate::Period vector.

Details

Period is chosen as the target class because it preserves the calendar components (years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds) of an RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 duration string separately, rather than collapsing them into a single number of seconds. That fidelity comes at a cost: years and months have no fixed length, so comparisons (min_value, max_value, allowed_values in stabilize_dur()) use lubridate's approximate, nominal lengths (a 365.25-day year, a 30.4375-day month) and may not reflect the actual elapsed time implied by a specific calendar date.

Character vectors must use the RFC 3339 duration format: "P" followed by an optional number of years (Y), months (M), and days (D), then an optional "T"-prefixed block of hours (H), minutes (M), and seconds (S) (for example "P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S", "P23DT23H", or "PT1M"); or a stand-alone week form ("P4W"). The date/time form and the week form cannot be mixed, fractional components are not permitted, and "P" or "PT" alone (with no components) are not valid durations. base::difftime values (including hms::hms()) are converted directly, preserving their unit. Numeric and integer values are treated as a (fractional) number of seconds and broken into day/hour/minute/second components, with no year or month component, since a number of seconds cannot unambiguously imply a calendar length.

to_dur() requires the lubridate package.

Examples

to_dur(lubridate::period(year = 1, month = 2, day = 3))
#> [1] "1y 2m 3d 0H 0M 0S"
to_dur("P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S")
#> [1] "3y 6m 4d 12H 30M 5S"
to_dur("PT1M")
#> [1] "1M 0S"
to_dur("P4W")
#> [1] "28d 0H 0M 0S"
to_dur(c("P1D", NA))
#> [1] "1d 0H 0M 0S" NA           
to_dur(3661)
#> [1] "1H 1M 1S"
to_dur(as.difftime(90, units = "mins"))
#> [1] "1H 30M 0S"
to_dur(NULL)
#> NULL
try(to_dur("P"))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : 
#>   `"P"` <character> must be coercible to <duration>
#>  Can't convert some values due to invalid or ambiguous duration format.
#>  Locations: 1
#>  Values: "P"
try(to_dur(c("P1D", "not-a-duration")))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : 
#>   `c("P1D", "not-a-duration")` <character> must be coercible to <duration>
#>  Can't convert some values due to invalid or ambiguous duration format.
#>  Locations: 2
#>  Values: "not-a-duration"