On 8 Sep 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > To make it actually work, we should probably fixup the "what" that is
> > being passed to scan a bit further upstreams.
> >
> >
> > > Might be a good idea to teach colClasses about "factor".
> >
> > That's what I thought. Other ideas would be to predefine some standard
> > date classes (it's a bit annoying that there's no way to give
> > auxiliary information like formats), and maybe to allow a second
> > header line containing class names.
>
> Done already, I see (except the class-header idea, which probably
> requires more thought). Thanks.
I've done some. If you allow columns to be dropped it gets increasing
hard to work out what as.is for example refers to, so I am looking at
allowing named vectors.
> While we're in there should we perhaps consider adding pseudo-classes
>
> "Ymd"
> "dmY"
> "mdY"
> "Y/m/d"
> "d/m-Y"
> "m/d/Y"
>
> etc? Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g.,
> "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code:
>
> else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i])))
> as.Date(data[[i]], sub("^Date-(.*)$","\\1", colClasses[i]))
>
> although perhaps not so easy to document concisely.
Is it really so hard to convert such columns from character afterwards?
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