[R] make check fails for 1.3.0 on SGI at ISOdate(1901,1,1)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> I've successfully compiled R 1.3.0 on SGI (info below) but it fails make
> check.  From base-Ex.Rout:
>
> > ## first days of years in the (commonly used) 20th century
> > seq(ISOdate(1901,1,1), ISOdate(1999,1,1), "years")
> Error in if (to <= from) stop("`to' must be later than `from'") :
>         missing value where logical needed
> Execution halted
>
> Indeed, from the same binary:
>
> > ISOdate(1901,1,1)
> [1] "NA"
> > ISOdate(1999,1,1)
> [1] "1999-01-01 07:00:00 EST"
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

1) Could you tell Debby Swayne how you got this to compile (see R-help)?

2) I suspect strptime on your machine is broken.  Sorry ....

>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
>  platform = mips-sgi-irix6.5
>  arch = mips
>  os = irix6.5
>  system = mips, irix6.5
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 3.0
>  year = 2001
>  month = 06
>  day = 22
>  language = R
>
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
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