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Converting to durations and periods

Intervals are the most specific way to represent a span of time since they retain information about the exact start and end moments. They can be converted to periods and durations exactly: it's possible to calculate both the exact number of seconds elapsed between the start and end date, as well as the perceived change in clock time.

To do so you use the as.period(), and as.duration() functions, parsing in an interval as the only argument.

Try them out to get better representations of the length of the monarchs reigns.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with Dates and Times in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Create new columns for duration and period that convert reign into the appropriate object.
  • Examine the name, duration and period columns.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# New columns for duration and period
monarchs <- monarchs %>%
  mutate(
    duration = ___,
    period = ___) 
    
# Examine results    
monarchs %>%
  select(___)
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