[R] Unexpected behaviour of the as.Date (was: Error as.Date on Invalid Dates)

[Ben Bolker]

Greg Snow <Greg.Snow <at> imail.org> writes:

> Many problems come as a result of users forgetting that they are smarter than
the computer.  I see 3 ways to
> remedy the problem:
> 
> 1. Make computers that are as smart or smarter than people.
> 2. Make the programmers anticipate every way that someone may use a particular
function and make them
> implement all of the functionality even if they don't think it is worth the
time/effort since there is an
> easy work around for many of the less likely used features.
> 3. Don't expect the computer to guess correctly and tell it exactly what you
want it to do.

  fortunes candidate?