Dates and Times Made Easy with lubridate

Abstract

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 oers practical advice on how to solve them using lubridate. The paper also introduces a conceptual framework for arithmetic with date-times in R.

Keywords

• dates
• times
• time zones
• daylight savings time
• R