[Rd] Surprising length() of POSIXlt vector (PR#14073)

[Benilton Carvalho]

Check the documentation and the archives. Not a bug. b

On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:30 PM, mark at celos.net wrote:

> Arrays of POSIXlt dates always return a length of 9.  This
> is correct (they're really lists of vectors of seconds,
> hours, and so forth), but other methods disguise them as
> flat vectors, giving superficially surprising behaviour:
>
>  strings <- paste('2009-1-', 1:31, sep='')
>  dates <- strptime(strings, format="%Y-%m-%d")
>
>  print(dates)
>  #  [1] "2009-01-01" "2009-01-02" "2009-01-03" "2009-01-04"  
> "2009-01-05"
>  #  [6] "2009-01-06" "2009-01-07" "2009-01-08" "2009-01-09"  
> "2009-01-10"
>  # [11] "2009-01-11" "2009-01-12" "2009-01-13" "2009-01-14"  
> "2009-01-15"
>  # [16] "2009-01-16" "2009-01-17" "2009-01-18" "2009-01-19"  
> "2009-01-20"
>  # [21] "2009-01-21" "2009-01-22" "2009-01-23" "2009-01-24"  
> "2009-01-25"
>  # [26] "2009-01-26" "2009-01-27" "2009-01-28" "2009-01-29"  
> "2009-01-30"
>  # [31] "2009-01-31"
>
>  print(length(dates))
>  # [1] 9
>
>  str(dates)
>  # POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2009-01-01" "2009-01-02" "2009-01-03"  
> "2009-01-04" ...
>
>  print(dates[20])
>  # [1] "2009-01-20"
>
>  print(length(dates[20]))
>  # [1] 9
>
> I've since realised that POSIXct makes date vectors easier,
> but could we also have something like:
>
>  length.POSIXlt <- function(x) { length(x$sec) }
>
> in datetime.R, to avoid breaking functions (like the
> str.POSIXt method) which use length() in this way?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark <><
>
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> Version:
> platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch = i686
> os = linux-gnu
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> major = 2
> minor = 10.0
> year = 2009
> month = 10
> day = 26
> svn rev = 50208
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