[Rd] Dates in C api

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 9/17/2008 1:24 PM, Lee, Philip (IT) wrote:
> r-devel,
> 
> I've been trying to write a C plugin for R, and I'm struggling to
> understand how dates are represented.
> 
> I can create a date in R:
>> mydate<-as.Date(1, origin="1900-01-01") mydate
> [1] "1900-01-02"

See ?Date for the internal represention: it's a count of days from a 
particular epoch.

> When I pass my date to a plugin, though, it's type is that of a real.
> There doesn't seem to be a date type in Rinternals.h, is there a way to
> recognize that a value is a date rather than a real?

Look at the class attribute.
> 
> Equally, does anyone know if it's possible to create date values in the
> C api?

Create a vector of doubles, and attach the right class to it.  See 
section 5.8.5 of the R extensions manual for an example.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thanks,
> Phil Lee
> 
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