alaios wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have a function that recognizes the following format for timestamps > "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > > my function takes two input arguments the TimeStart and TimeEnd > I would like to help me create the right list with pairs of TimeStart and > TimeEnd which I can feed to lapply (I am using mclapply actually). > For every lapply I want two inputs to be fed to my function. I only know > how to feed one input to the lapply > > Could you please help me with that? > I would like to thank you in advance for your help > > B.R > Alex > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
Is this of any use? # Data in list - first time is start time, second time is end time myListStartEnd = list(c(strptime("2010-01-01 09:00:00","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), strptime("2011-01-01 11:30:00","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")), c(strptime("2010-12-01 10:00:00","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), strptime("2010-12-25 06:00:00","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))) lapply(myListStartEnd,function(x) x[2]-x[1]) # Output [[1]] Time difference of 365.1042 days [[2]] Time difference of 23.83333 days HTH Pete -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/lapply-and-Two-TimeStamps-as-input-tp3961939p3962139.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.