[R] Rep command

[Roger Peng]

That's not a bug, but the internal representation of the date as the
number of seconds since the beginning of 1970.  See ?DateTimeClasses.  I
guess rep coerces the argument to be numeric.

-roger
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Shawn Way wrote:

> I'm trying to use the rep command to replicate a POSIX value, the result is
> interesting, maybe a bug?
> 
> a <- data$Time[1]
> > a
> [1] "2003-04-24 13:29:15 Central Daylight Time"
> > b <- rep(a,3)
> > b
> [1] 1051208955 1051208955 1051208955
> 
> > version
>          _                           
> platform i386-pc-mingw32             
> arch     i386                        
> os       mingw32                     
> system   i386, mingw32               
> status   Under development (unstable)
> major    1                           
> minor    7.0                         
> year     2003                        
> month    03                          
> day      10                          
> language R                           
> > 
> 
> I couldn't find this in the bug reports, either...
> 
> Shawn Way
> Engineering Manager
> 
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