Examples for 'lubridate::time_length'


Compute the exact length of a time span

Aliases: time_length time_length,Interval-method

Keywords: chron math methods period

### ** Examples

int <- interval(ymd("1980-01-01"), ymd("2014-09-18"))
time_length(int, "week")
[1] 1811.286
# Exact age
time_length(int, "year")
[1] 34.71233
# Age at last anniversary
trunc(time_length(int, "year"))
[1] 34
# Example of difference between intervals and durations
int <- interval(ymd("1900-01-01"), ymd("1999-12-31"))
time_length(int, "year")
[1] 99.99726
time_length(as.duration(int), "year")
[1] 99.99452

[Package lubridate version 1.8.0 Index]