[R] library(fCalendar) timeDate("12.03.2005", format="%d.%m.%Y")

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "OL" == Ola Lindqvist <ola.lindqvist at nr.no>
>>>>>     on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:32:19 +0200 writes:

    OL> Thanks!
    OL> Seems to work fine now!

Well, for your example.

But sorry to say, the patch breaks other cases.

I'm investigating further
(and will hopefully contribute to a new CRAN release of fCalendar
 once Diethelm Wuertz is back from wherever; I've already made
 more changes)

Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich  [but different department than D.Wuertz]


    OL> Martin Becker wrote:
    >> Dear Ola,
    >> 
    >> I think you spotted a small bug in *package* fCalendar.
    >> Explicit specification should prevent "autodetection" of the date 
    >> format, which is not the case for fCalendar v251.70, instead 
    >> autodetection is done at least once (twice, if actually appropriate).
    >> With the following patch, things should work ok:
    >> 
    >> diff --recursive fCalendar.orig/R/3A-TimeDateClass.R 
    >> fCalendar/R/3A-TimeDateClass.R
    >> 433c433
    >> <     charvec = format(strptime(charvec, .whichFormat(charvec)), 
    >> isoFormat)
    >> ---
    >> >     charvec = format(strptime(charvec, format), isoFormat)
    >> 
    >> You did not provide the output of sessionInfo() (which you are asked 
    >> for in the posting guide). If you are using Windows and don't know how 
    >> to apply the patch, you can download a patched binary version here:
    >> http://www.saar-gate.net/download/fCalendar_251.70.zip
    >> 
    >> Regards,
    >> 
    >> Martin
    >> 
    >> PS: Maybe r-sig-finance is more appropriate for questions concerning 
    >> Rmetrics.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Ola Lindqvist wrote:
    >>> Dear R users,
    >>> I have problem with the library fCalendar.
    >>> 
    >>> I am not using the US standard format notations. It seems like it is 
    >>> not possible to have different format than the US standards.
    >>> Anyone how knows a way to go around this problem?
    >>> 
    >>> Here is the code I enter:
    >>> myDate = "12.03.2005"
    >>> timeDate(myDate, format = "%d.%m.%Y")
    >>> 
    >>> And I get following error message:
    >>> Error in if (sum(lt$sec + lt$min + lt$hour) == 0) isoFormat = 
    >>> "%Y-%m-%d" :
    >>> missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
    >>> 
    >>> Thanks,
    >>> Ola
    >>> 
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    >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
    >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
    >>> 
    >> 

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