Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

See ?julian, which says

Note:

     Other components such as the day of the month or the year are very
     easy to computes: just use 'as.POSIXlt' and extract the relevant
     component.


Hello,


unfortunately not all mentioned functions work on all machines. Where

> months(.leap.seconds)

works on all systems, a call to

> julian(leap.seconds)

workes perfectly only on Linux (R 1.8.0) but failed on two different XP Machines (German XP version):

Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format

I've tested several things, several versions of msvcrt.dll, different PATH settings, locale set to German or USA, R 1.8.1 and R 1.7.1, but the problem remains.

On the other hand

>as.numeric(format(x, f="%d"))

works perfectly, so I do not understand what is wrong with julian()



Thomas P.

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