Nanoival

Interval type with nanosecond precision

Description

nanoival is a time interval type (an S4 class) with nanosecond precision. One of its purposes is to allow quick subsetting of a nanotime vector. nanoival is composed of a nanotime pair which defines the start and end of the time interval. Additionally, it has a pair of logical values which determine if the start and end of the time interval are open (true) or closed (false).

Usage

nanoival(start, end, sopen = FALSE, eopen = TRUE)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
nanoival.start(x)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
nanoival.end(x)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
nanoival.sopen(x)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
nanoival.eopen(x)

## S3 method for class 'nanoival'
format(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
print(x, quote = FALSE, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
show(object)

## S4 method for signature 'character'
as.nanoival(from, format = "", tz = "")

## S4 method for signature ''NULL''
as.nanoival(from, format = "", tz = "")

## S4 method for signature 'missing'
as.nanoival(from, format = "", tz = "")

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
is.na(x)

## S4 replacement method for signature 'nanoival'
is.na(x) <- value

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,nanoival'
e1 < e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,nanoival'
e1 <= e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,nanoival'
e1 > e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,nanoival'
e1 >= e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,nanoival'
e1 == e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,nanoival'
e1 != e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,integer64'
e1 - e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,numeric'
e1 - e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,integer64'
e1 + e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,numeric'
e1 + e2

## S4 method for signature 'integer64,nanoival'
e1 + e2

## S4 method for signature 'numeric,nanoival'
e1 + e2

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
x[[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]]

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,logical'
x[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,numeric'
x[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,character'
x[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival,ANY'
x[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]

## S4 replacement method for signature 'nanoival,logical,ANY,nanoival'
x[i, j, ...] <- value

## S3 method for class 'nanoival'
c(...)

## S4 method for signature 'nanoival'
t(x)

## S4 method for signature 'nanotime,nanoival'
x[i, j, ..., drop = TRUE]

NA_nanoival_

## S3 method for class 'nanoival'
as.character(x, ...)

Arguments


`start`	`nanotime` start of interval
`end`	`nanotime` end of interval
`sopen`	logical indicating if the start of the interval is open
`eopen`	logical indicating if the end of the interval is open
`x`, `from`	a `nanoival` object
`...`	further arguments passed to or from methods.
`quote`	indicates if the output of `print` should be quoted
`object`	argument for method `show`
`format`	A character string. Can also be set via `options("nanotimeFormat")` and uses ‘%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%E9S%Ez’ as a default and fallback
`tz`	`character` indicating a timezone
`value`	argument for `nanoival-class`
`e1`	Operand of class `nanoival`
`e2`	Operand of class `nanoival`
`i`	index specifying elements to extract or replace.
`j`	Required for `[` signature but ignored here
`drop`	Required for `[` signature but ignored here

Format

An object of class nanoival of length 1.

Details

An interval object can be constructed with the constructor nanoival which takes as arguments two nanotime objects that define the start and the end of the interval, together with two logical arguments that define if the start and the end of the interval are open (true) or closed (false) (note that these objects can all be vector, and therefore the interval object is not necessarily scalar). Alternatively, an interval can be constructed with a character: the format follows that of nanotime; the start time is preceeded by either - or + indicating if the interval start is open (-) or closed (+); the start and end times are separated by an arrow ->; the end is folloed by either - or + which have the same semantics as the start time.

The most important set of methods defined for interval are set functions intersect, union and setdiff.

Additionally, interval allows the subsetting into a nanotime vector. Note that subsetting is allowed only if the nanotime vector is sorted.

Finally, accessors are provided to get the interval start (start), the end (end), the open/close status of the start (sopen) and the open/close status of the end (eopen). The former return a nanotime while the latter return a logical.

Value

A nanoival object

Output Format

Formatting and character conversion for nanoival objects is identical to nanotime objects. The default format is ISO3339 compliant: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%E9S%Ez. It specifies a standard ISO 8601 part for date and time — as well as nine digits of precision for fractional seconds (down to nanoseconds) and on offset (typically zero as we default to UTC). It can be overriden by using options() with the key of nanotimeFormat and a suitable value. Similarly, nanotimeTz can be used to select a different timezone.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Leonardo Silvestri

Examples

## Not run: 
## creating a \code{nanoival}, with the start time included ('+') and the end
## time excluded ('-')
as.nanoival("+2012-03-01T21:21:00.000000001+00:00->2015-01-01T21:22:00.000000999+04:00-")

## a \code{nanoival} can also be created with a pair of \code{nanotime} objects, a start
## and an end, and optionally two logicals determining if the interval start(end) are open
## or closed; by default the start is closed and end is open:
start <- nanotime("2012-03-01T21:21:00.000000001+00:00")
end <- nanotime("2013-03-01T21:21:00.000000001+00:00")
nanoival(start, end)

## a vector of 'nanotime' can be subsetted by a 'nanoival':
one_second <- 1e9
a <- seq(nanotime("2012-12-12 12:12:12+00:00"), length.out=10, by=one_second)
idx <- c(as.nanoival("-2012-12-12 12:12:10+00:00 -> 2012-12-12 12:12:14+00:00-"),
         as.nanoival("+2012-12-12 12:12:18+00:00 -> 2012-12-12 12:12:20+00:00+"))
a[idx]

## End(Not run)