tojulian                 package:ALL                 R Documentation

_C_o_n_v_e_r_t _C_a_l_e_n_d_a_r _D_a_t_e _t_o _J_u_l_i_a_n _T_i_m_e

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Convert Calendar Date in the form of "%m/%d/%Y" to Julian time,
     number of days since 1970-01-01 in the time zone of "GMT".

_U_s_a_g_e:

     tojulian(x)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       x: Date to convert

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Robert Gentleman

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ds <- tojulian(c("4/8/2000", "4/30/2000"))
     ds[2]-ds[1]

