understanding diff function

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#1

I use this example in order to understand the diff function.
Usually, the diff function computes the difference between pairs of consecutive elements of a numeric vector.
What is happening in the following example?

test <- data.table(X = c(4, 15)[round(runif(20, 1, 2))],
                Y = c(45, 93)[round(runif(20, 1, 2))],
                Time = sort(sample(1:30, 20)))

test[ , diff(Time), c("X", "Y")]
#2

It produces the (lagged) differences of Time values by group of X, Y pairs.

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