[R] day, month, year functions

Gregor Gorjanc gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si
Fri Aug 18 08:42:47 CEST 2006


Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On 8/17/06, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si>
>> >>>>>     on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:27:27 +0000 (UTC) writes:

[snip]

> 
> There are two problems:
> 
> 1. as.POSIXlt is not generic.  (This problem may not be too important
> given that as.POSIXlt does handle "Date" and chron "dates" classes
> already but in terms of handling all potential classes its a limitation.)

But as.POSIXlt can be implemented as generic. Given the variatey of
potential classes this would be a reasonable move.

-- 
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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