Peter et al
Thanks for the comments on dates. Some of the respondents missed the point,
by showing ways that I could work around the problems, when my main argument
is that one shouldn't have to work around problems. So I hereto present
round 2 of the debate.
1 Postulates
a. In my 35
Terry Therneau wrote:
b. I'd advise against numeric operation on difftime objects in general,
because of the unspecified units.
If I carry this idea forward, the R should insist that I specify units for
any variable that corresponds to a physical quantity, e.g. height or
weight, so that
On 9/17/07, Terry Therneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck
as.Date(10)
You can define as.Date.numeric in your package and then it will work. zoo
has done that.
library(zoo)
as.Date(10)
This is also a nice idea. Although adding to a package is possible, it is
now very hard
