AW: [R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-25 Thread RINNER Heinrich
Heinrich Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [R] ISOdate() and strptime() Confirmation that this *is* an OS-specific problem: A professional implementation of the POSIX standard (Solaris) gets all of these correct. Your so-called OS lacks any implementation of strptime, so

Re: [R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Confirmation that this *is* an OS-specific problem: A professional implementation of the POSIX standard (Solaris) gets all of these correct. Your so-called OS lacks any implementation of strptime, so we borrowed one from glibc. Unfortunately, that is buggy, even to the extent that

RE: [R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-17 Thread Simon Fear
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Re: [R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-17 Thread RINNER Heinrich
Nachricht- Von: RINNER Heinrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 14. November 2003 11:13 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: [R] ISOdate() and strptime() Dear R-people! I am using R 1.8.0, under Windows XP. While using ISOdate() and strptime(), I noticed the following

[R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-14 Thread RINNER Heinrich
Dear R-people! I am using R 1.8.0, under Windows XP. While using ISOdate() and strptime(), I noticed the following behaviour when wrong arguments (e.g., months12) are given to these functions: ISOdate(year=2003,month=2,day=20) #ok [1] 2003-02-20 13:00:00 Westeuropäische Normalzeit

Re: [R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, RINNER Heinrich wrote: Dear R-people! I am using R 1.8.0, under Windows XP. While using ISOdate() and strptime(), I noticed the following behaviour when wrong arguments (e.g., months12) are given to these functions: ISOdate(year=2003,month=2,day=20) #ok [1]

RE: [R] ISOdate() and strptime()

2003-11-14 Thread Simon Fear
People who don't like this behaviour (and particularly those who dislike it as much as I do), should consider as.date() from the dates package as an alternative. Gives you a NA if the specified date is impossible (at least in all the examples given earlier). Is the behaviour of ISOtime() and