[Rd] seq.POSIXt with by="DSTday" (PR#6212)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is deliberate, to avoid excessively long computations in
validate_tm in src/main/datetime.c.  You could increase the limits in

    if(tm->tm_mday < -1000 || tm->tm_mday > 1000) return -1;


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 deville.yves at wanadoo.fr wrote:

> Full_Name: Yves DEVILLE
> Version: 1.7.1
> OS: linux-gnu
> Submission from: (NULL) (213.203.71.194)
> 
> 
> There seems to be a problem with seq.POSIXt with by="DSTday" and length>=999. In
> the result, 
> NA are produced for indexes >=999 (no such problem with by="day" or "x days")  
> 
> Begins <- as.POSIXct(strptime("1995-09-03", format="%Y-%m-%d"))
> 
> ## Works (whatever be Begins)
> Length <- 998
> Ends <- seq(from=Begins, length=Length, by="DSTday")[Length]
> 
> ## returns NA in Ends (whatever be Begins)
> Length <- 999
> Ends <- seq(from=Begins, length=Length, by="DSTday")[Length]
> 
> ## Works
> Length <- 499
> Ends <- seq(from=Begins, length=Length, by="2 DSTdays")[Length]
> 
> ## Returns NA
> Length <- 500
> Ends <- seq(from=Begins, length=Length, by="2 DSTdays")[Length]
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Yves Deville
> 
> R.version
> 
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686             
> os       linux-gnu        
> system   i686, linux-gnu  
> status                    
> major    1                
> minor    7.1              
> year     2003             
> month    06               
> day      16               
> language R
> 
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