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

[Achim Zeileis]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Ben Bolker wrote:

> 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?

...in the devel version on R-Forge.

thx,
Z

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