seq.POSIXt {base} | R Documentation

## Generate Regular Sequences of Dates

### Description

The methodw for `seq` for date-time classes

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'POSIXt':
    seq(from, to, by, length.out=NULL, along.with=NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`from` | starting date. Required
`to` | end date. Optional. If supplied must be after `from`.
`by` | increment of the sequence. Optional. See Details.
`length.out` | integer, optional. desired length of the sequence.
`along.with` | take the length from the length of this argument.
`...` | arguments passed to or from other methods.

### Details

`by` can be specified in several ways.

- A number, taken to be in seconds.
- A object of class `difftime`
- A character string, containing one of `"sec"`, `"min"`, `"hour"`, `"day"`, `"DSTday"`, `"week"`, `"month"` or `"year"`. This can optionally be preceded by an integer and a space, or followed by `"s"`.

The difference between `"day"` and `"DSTday"` is that the former ignores changes to/from daylight savings time and the latter takes the same clock time each day. (`"week"` ignores DST, but `"7 DSTdays"`) can be used as an alternative. `"month"` and `"year"` allow for DST as from R 1.5.0.)

### Value

A vector of class `"POSIXct"`.

### See Also

`DateTimeClasses`

### Examples

    ## first days of years
    seq(ISOdate(1910,1,1), ISOdate(1999,1,1), "years")
    ## by month
    seq(ISOdate(2000,1,1), by="month", length=12)
    ## quarters
    seq(ISOdate(1990,1,1), ISOdate(2000,1,1), by="3 months")
    ## days vs DSTdays
    seq(ISOdate(2000,3,20), by="day", length = 10)
    seq(ISOdate(2000,3,20), by="DSTday", length = 10)
    seq(ISOdate(2000,3,20), by="7 DSTdays", length = 4)

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