Format in ISO8601 character format

Source: R/format_ISO8601.r

Format in ISO8601 character format

format_ISO8601(x, usetz = FALSE, precision = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

An object to convert to ISO8601 character format.

usetz

Include the time zone in the formatting (of outputs including time; date outputs never include time zone information).

precision

The amount of precision to represent with substrings of "ymdhms", as "y"ear, "m"onth, "d"ay, "h"our, "m"inute, and "s"econd. (e.g. "ymdhm" would show precision through minutes. When NULL, full precision for the object is shown.

...

Additional arguments to methods.

Value

A character vector of ISO8601-formatted text.

Examples

format_ISO8601(as.Date("02-01-2018", format="%m-%d-%Y"))
#> [1] "2018-02-01"
format_ISO8601(as.POSIXct("2018-02-01 03:04:05", tz="EST"), usetz=TRUE)
#> [1] "2018-02-01T03:04:05-0500"
format_ISO8601(as.POSIXct("2018-02-01 03:04:05", tz="EST"), precision="ymdhm")
#> [1] "2018-02-01T03:04"