[Rd] Weird issue when iterating through dates

Gábor Csárdi csardi.gabor at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 17:55:56 CEST 2015


I am not sure if this is a bug or not.

Gabor

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Luca Cerone <luca.cerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following up on this, should I report a bug? can you drive me through
> the process?
>
> Cheers,
> Luca
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:55 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
>>>> Just a quick question: what's the difference between  `[.Date` and
>>>> `[[.Date`?
>>>> Is it supposed to be the method for accessing the value right?
>>>
>>>For Dates and atomic vectors in general they are the same, but ...
>>
>> Even for atomic vectors with names they are not quite the same
>>     > c(One=1, Two=2)[[2]]
>>     [1] 2
>>     > c(One=1, Two=2)[2]
>>     Two
>>       2
>> (and [[ will only return 1 item, unlike [).
>>
>>
>> Bill Dunlap
>> TIBCO Software
>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Luca Cerone <luca.cerone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> > Just a quick question: what's the difference between  `[.Date` and
>>> > `[[.Date`?
>>> > Is it supposed to be the method for accessing the value right?
>>>
>>> For Dates and atomic vectors in general they are the same, but in
>>> general they are two different operators that behave differently on
>>> some data types. E.g. on lists [ selects a sub-list and [[ selects a
>>> single element.
>>>
>>> Gabor
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
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