date() should not append a final "\n" ?!?
Friedrich Leisch
Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:48:18 +0200 (CEST)
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:45:35 +0200,
>>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:
MM> Between R 0.63.2 and 0.64, the behavior of
MM> date()
MM> has been changed in order to become platform independent.
MM> It now uses POSIX calls, basically
MM> time_t t;
MM> time(&t);
MM> return ctime(&t);
MM> This currently returns (for me on Sun SPARC Solaris)
>> date()
MM> [1] "Thu Aug 19 10:36:28 1999\n"
MM> where I think the final "\n" is really UNdesired.
Yes!
MM> ---
MM> Is this just my (Sun's) version of ctime(), i.e.,
MM> does anyone *NOT* get the final new line ?
Debian Linux:
R> date()
[1] "Thu Aug 19 10:47:17 1999\n"
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