[Rd] Wrong length of POSIXt vectors (PR#10507)

[simecek at gmail.com]

Full_Name: Petr Simecek
Version: 2.5.1, 2.6.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (195.113.231.2)


Several times I have experienced that a length of a POSIXt vector has not been
computed right.

Example:

tv<-structure(list(sec = c(50, 0, 55, 12, 2, 0, 37, NA, 17, 3, 31
), min = c(1L, 10L, 11L, 15L, 16L, 18L, 18L, NA, 20L, 22L, 22L
), hour = c(12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, NA, 12L, 12L, 
12L), mday = c(13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, NA, 13L, 13L, 
13L), mon = c(5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, NA, 5L, 5L, 5L), year = c(105L, 
105L, 105L, 105L, 105L, 105L, 105L, NA, 105L, 105L, 105L), wday = c(1L, 
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, NA, 1L, 1L, 1L), yday = c(163L, 163L, 
163L, 163L, 163L, 163L, 163L, NA, 163L, 163L, 163L), isdst = c(1L, 
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, -1L, 1L, 1L, 1L)), .Names = c("sec", 
"min", "hour", "mday", "mon", "year", "wday", "yday", "isdst"
), class = c("POSIXt", "POSIXlt"))

print(tv)
# print 11 time points (right)

length(tv)
# returns 9 (wrong)

I have tried that on several computers with/without switching to English
locales, i.e. Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "en"). I have searched a help pages but I
cannot imagine how that could be OK.