[Rd] problem with strptime example (PR#811)
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:54:38 +0100 (MET)
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.
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
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> Version:
> platform = alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
> arch = alphaev56
> os = osf4.0f
> system = alphaev56, osf4.0f
> status =
> major = 1
> minor = 2.0
> year = 2000
> month = 12
> day = 15
> language = R
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
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