Calculate duration in years from "0000-01-01" to a given date

Given a vector of dates, the output is a vector of durations in years since "0000-01-01".

toTime(dates)

Arguments

dates	A vector of dates in character form or of class Date

Value

A vector of durations, as decribed above.

See also

toDate

Author

Göran Broström

Examples

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--  or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.


toTime(c("1897-05-16", "1901-11-21"))
#> [1] 1897.372 1901.887