Calculate time duration based on sequential difference of date-time input. The unit of time duration is seconds.

track_time(date)

Arguments

date

date-time in POSIXct

Value

numeric vector of duration between sequential date-time values in seconds, see Details

Details

By convention the first value is set to NA missing value, because the difference applies to each sequential pair of locations.

To use this on multiple track ids, use a grouped data frame with tidyverse code like data %>% group_by(id) %>% mutate(duration = track_time(date))

Examples

track_time(trips0$date)[1:10]
#>  [1]    NA  9422 10006  3963  5053  6678 19228 11746 13713  9287