[R] as.Date

[BXC (Bendix Carstensen)]

We spotted that there were problems, and have realized that the as.Date.numeric was a left-over form earlier; it will be removed in the next version of the Epi package.
Thanks for the help.
br.
Bendix 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 9. februar 2011 11:48
> To: Philipp Pagel
> Cc: BXC (Bendix Carstensen); r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] as.Date
> 
> And I am hereby reporting this bug to the package maintainer.
> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Philipp Pagel wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Valeri Fabio wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I find out which package disturbs as.Date(). It is the package Epi:
> >>
> >>> as.Date(36525, origin="1900-01-01")
> >> [1] "2000-01-02"
> >>> library(Epi)
> >>> as.Date(36525, origin="1900-01-01")
> >> [1] "2070-01-01"
> >>> detach("package:Epi")
> >>> as.Date(36525, origin="1900-01-01")
> >> [1] "2000-01-02"
> >
> > OK - that makes sense. Epi has its own as.Date.numeric function and 
> > upon loading the package you get a warning:
> >
> >
> >> library(Epi)
> > Attaching package: 'Epi'
> > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
> >    as.Date.numeric, merge.data.frame
> >
> >
> > A quick look at the manual page confirms that Epi's version 
> does not 
> > have an origin option.
> >
> > cu
> > 	Philipp
> >
> > --
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> > München Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3
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