[Rd] seq.POSIXt() bug not fixed in R 1.8.1 (PR#4558)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:39:14PM +0200, John.Marsland at CommerzbankIB.com wrote:
> I am still experiencing problems with seq.POSIXt() missing off the last day
> of the series:
> 
> > seq(as.POSIXct("2004-03-25"),as.POSIXct("2004-03-31"),by="DSTdays")
> [1] "2004-03-25 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-26 GMT Standard Time"
> "2004-03-27 GMT Standard Time"
> [4] "2004-03-28 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-29 GMT Daylight Time"
> "2004-03-30 GMT Daylight Time"
> 

FWIW, 1.9.0 can handle this fine (on Linux, at least): 

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> seq(as.POSIXct("2004-03-25"),as.POSIXct("2004-03-31"),by="DSTdays")
[1] "2004-03-25 CST" "2004-03-26 CST" "2004-03-27 CST" "2004-03-28 CST"
[5] "2004-03-29 CST" "2004-03-30 CST" "2004-03-31 CST"
>


You may want to try one of Duncan's test builds of 1.9.0 for Windows.

Hth, Dirk


> > R.version
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    8.1            
> year     2003           
> month    11             
> day      21             
> language R              
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
> 
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