[Rd] new chron problems in RW0990
Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi
jens.oehlschlaegel-akiyoshi@mdfactory.de
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:41:04 +0100
Kurt Hornik wrote
> Note that currently, chron/dates only supports formats like "m/d/y" or
> "mdy" where all three signify (2-digit) abbreviations
However, the older version of chron DID allow creating CORRECT chron objects
with mm/dd/yyyy
> as.numeric(dates("12/31/1999", format='m/d/y'))
[1] 10956
> as.numeric(dates("01/01/2000", format='m/d/y'))
[1] 10957
wheras backformatting in the print method failed
> dates("12/31/1999", format='m/d/y')
[1] 12/31/99
> dates("01/01/2000", format='m/d/y')
[1] 01/01/100
thus I tend to see it as a bug, because it may break old code.
Still, I don't know whether it is approbriate to send a bug report to
r-bugs@lists.r-project.org ?
Regards
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