Dates and Times Made Easy with lubridate

By Garrett Grolemund, Hadley Wickham. 2011

1,537 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper presents the lubridate package for R, which facilitates working with dates and times. Date-times create various technical problems for the data analyst. The paper highlights these problems and offers practical advice on how to solve them using lubridate. The paper also introduces a conceptual framework for arithmetic with date-times in R.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/07972679708986cf9678c7fb320760c1b33bbd6c

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Citations in the corpus

• Animal movement tools (amt): R package for managing tracking data and conducting habitat selection analyses (2018, methodology): “The function minutes from the package lubridate (Grolemund & Wickham, 2011), is used here to create an object of class Period that is then passed to track resample .”
• nasapower: A NASA POWER Global Meteorology, Surface Solar Energy and Climatology Data Client for R (2018, background): “…and Climatology; three geographic options, single point, regional and global for the appropriate parameters offered. nasapower uses lubridate (Grolemund & Wickham, 2011) internally to format and parse dates which are passed along to the the query constructed using crul (Chamberlain, 2018) to…”