[R] R 1.9.0 on AIX, 64-bit

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The second (at least) looks like a broken strptime.  Try undefining
HAVE_WORKING_STRPTIME in src/include/config.h and recompiling.

Unfortunately, it could also be a broken mktime.

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Andy Pierce wrote:

> I'm trying to get R 1.9.0 running on AIX 5.1 with the standard AIX 
> compilers (xlc, xlf) and it is failing 2 of the tests,
> test-Reg in reg-tests-1.R like this:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ tail -30 reg-tests-1.Rout.fail
>       [,1] [,2]
> [1,] 1    3
> [2,] 2    4
> [3,] 1    3
> [4,] 2    4
>  > stopifnot(typeof(res) == "list")
>  > ## were not implemented in 1.8.1
>  >
>  >
>  > ## Date objects with NA's
>  > (t1 <- strptime(c("6. Aug. 1930", "3. Nov. 1925", "28. Mar. 1959",
> +                  NA, paste(1:29," Feb. 1960", sep=".")),
> +                format = "%d. %b. %Y"))
>   [1] "1930-08-06" "1925-11-03" "1959-03-28" NA           "1960-02-01"
>   [6] "1960-02-02" "1960-02-03" "1960-02-04" "1960-02-05" "1960-02-06"
> [11] "1960-02-07" "1960-02-08" "1960-02-09" "1960-02-10" "1960-02-11"
> [16] "1960-02-12" "1960-02-13" "1960-02-14" "1960-02-15" "1960-02-16"
> [21] "1960-02-17" "1960-02-18" "1960-02-19" "1960-02-20" "1960-02-21"
> [26] "1960-02-22" "1960-02-23" "1960-02-24" "1960-02-25" "1960-02-26"
> [31] "1960-02-27" "1960-02-28" "1960-02-29"
>  > stopifnot(6 == length(print(s1 <- summary(t1))),
> +           s1== summary(as.POSIXct(t1)),
> +           6 == length(print(format(as.Date(s1)))) )
>     Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>       NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA
>     Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>       NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA
> Error in if (!(is.logical(r <- eval(ll[[i]])) && all(r))) 
> stop(paste(deparse(mc[[i +  :
>          missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> Execution halted
> 
> and also in base-Ex.R like this:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ tail base-Ex.Rout.fail
>  > ### Title: Generate Regular Sequences of Dates
>  > ### Aliases: seq.Date
>  > ### Keywords: manip chron
>  >
>  > ### ** Examples
>  >
>  > ## first days of years
>  > seq(as.Date("1910/1/1"), as.Date("1999/1/1"), "years")
> Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous 
> format
> Execution halted
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> Andy Pierce
> 
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