[R] question about difference in date objects
    Karl Ove Hufthammer 
    karl at huftis.org
       
    Mon Nov  2 12:36:59 CET 2009
    
    
  
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:29:54 -0500 Phil Smith 
<philipsmith at alumni.albany.edu> wrote:
> I want to take the difference in two dates:
> 
> dt2 - dt1.
> 
> But, I want the answer in months between those 2 dates.
What do you mean by 'months'? The number of days in a month vary, so the 
number of months between two dates is not defined. But if you're willing 
to think of a month as 30 days, you just have to divide by 30:
d=dt2-dt1
d/30
or
as.numeric(d)/30
if you want to avoid the (wrong) textual description.
-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer
    
    
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