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convertToDateTime

Convert from excel time number to R POSIXct type.

Description

Convert from excel time number to R POSIXct type.

Usage

convertToDateTime(x, origin = "1900-01-01", ...)

Arguments

`x`	A numeric vector
`origin`	date. Default value is for Windows Excel 2010
`...`	Additional parameters passed to as.POSIXct

Details

Excel stores dates as number of days from some origin date

Examples

## 2014-07-01, 2014-06-30, 2014-06-29
x <- c(41821.8127314815, 41820.8127314815, NA, 41819, NaN)
convertToDateTime(x)
convertToDateTime(x, tx = "Australia/Perth")

openxlsx

Read, Write and Edit xlsx Files

v4.2.3

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Philipp Schauberger [aut, cre], Alexander Walker [aut], Luca Braglia [ctb], Joshua Sturm [ctb]

Initial release

2020-10-26