[Rd] all.equal doesn't work for POSIXlt objects

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Joris Meys writes:

This is already fixed in r-devel.

-k

> Hi all,
> following sample code illustrates the problem :

>   Date1 <- Date2 <-
> as.POSIXlt(seq.Date(as.Date("2010-04-01"),as.Date("2011-04-01"),by='day'))
>   identical(Date1,Date2)
>   all.equal(Date1,Date2)

> identical() gives the correct answer. As there is no all.equal method
> for POSIXlt objects, all.equal.list is used instead. Subsetting using
> [[]] doesn't work on POSIXlt objects. I solved the problem by adding a
> function all.equal.POSIXlt() :

> all.equal.POSIXlt <- function(target, current, ..., scale=1) {
>   check_tzones(target, current)
>   target <- unclass(target)
>   current <- unclass(current)
>   NextMethod("all.equal.list")
> }

> This seems to work bugfree, but I'm not sure about it. So am I doing
> it correct, and if so, can this be added to the next R release? I'm
> not sure where else I should drop this proposal...

> Cheers
> Joris

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