[R] Exist the S 'dates' function in R?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> BTW: In Version 1.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2000-11-15)
> 
> > dates(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92",
> +                "02/28/92", "02/01/92"))
> Error in names<-.default(*tmp*, value = fnames) : 
>         Unimplemented feature in duplicate
> > dates("02/27/99")
> Error in as.vector(x, "double") : cannot coerce to vector

Did you re-compile it for that version?  The CRAN Windows zip files are
for 1.1.1.   Several packages need to be re-compiled, including chron.
Come the release of 1.2.0 we will provide re-compiled versions.  Your
example works for me.

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