[Rd] problem with strptime example (PR#811)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 stephen@anc.ed.ac.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The help file for strptime has the following code which doesn't work
> for me:
>
>      ## read in date info in format `ddmmmyyyy'
>      x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960")
>      z <- strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
> > z
> [1] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA"
>
> Do these work for other people?

Yes, on several platforms.  It will be a problem with your OS's strptime
code.  It must be, I think, as the alternative we supply works.

> whereas it works fine if I use a separator (/) in the date@
>
> > strptime("9/Feb/1960", "%d/%b/%Y")
> [1] "1960-02-09"
>
> > strptime("9Feb1960", "%d%b%Y")
> [1] "NA"

We really do not put out new features without testing them!


>
> Stephen
>
> p.s. I failed to send this using bug.report(); on DEC OSF/1, "mailx"
> does not recognise the -c switch for setting the carbon copy (CC)
> field, causing an error.  One solution might be to remove the -c
> argument from the cmdarg in bug.rerport(), or put a
> "~c joe@bloggs.com" directive at the end of the file to set the CC field.
>
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