[Rd] Weird issue when iterating through dates

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this is a bug or not.
>
I would argue that this isn't a bug, not even in the documentation of
"for" (even though it might be clearer).  ?"for" says that `seq` is
"[A]n expression evaluating to a vector (including a list and an
expression) or to a pairlist or 'NULL'".  Date objects aren't strictly
vectors, so they're treated as integer/numeric.

This answer on StackOverflow said that "for" does not copy any of the
iterators attributes (including class), which causes this behavior.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/23278464/271616

To respond to the original question regarding why the code below,
"prints the dates as a string".  Quite simply, you convert seq(d1,d2,
by=1) to character, so it's no longer a Date.  The fact that
Sys.Date() and as.character(Sys.Date()) both *print* the same thing
does not mean they are the same.

for ( dt in as.character(seq(d1,d2, by=1)) ) {
  print(dt)
}

Best,
Josh

> 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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