A generic function for rounding date and time values
Arguments
- x
A vector of class POSIX or Date.
- n
Unit to round to. Defaults to mins. Numeric values treated as seconds. Otherwise this should be one of "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks", "months", "years" (plural optional).
- tz
Time zone to be used, defaults to "UTC" (Twitter default)
Examples
## class posixct
round_time(Sys.time(), "12 hours")
#> [1] "2024-04-15 12:00:00 UTC"
## class date
unique(round_time(seq(Sys.Date(), Sys.Date() + 100, "1 day"), "weeks"))
#> [1] "2024-04-11" "2024-04-18" "2024-04-25" "2024-05-02" "2024-05-09"
#> [6] "2024-05-16" "2024-05-23" "2024-05-30" "2024-06-06" "2024-06-13"
#> [11] "2024-06-20" "2024-06-27" "2024-07-04" "2024-07-11" "2024-07-18"