articleJournal of Statistical SoftwareJan 1, 2011DIAMOND OA

Dates and Times Made Easy with lubridate

GGGarrett GrolemundHWHadley Wickham
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Abstract

This paper presents the lubridate package for R, which facilitates working with dates and times. Date-times create various technical problems for the data analyst. The paper highlights these problems and offers practical advice on how to solve them using lubridate. The paper also introduces a conceptual framework for arithmetic with date-times in R.

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  • Computer science
  • Advice (programming)
  • R package
  • Operations research
  • Arithmetic
  • Data science
  • Programming language
  • Mathematics
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