[R-pkg-devel] Warning 'as.data.frame.POSIXct()' is deprecated

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 July 2023 at 14:31, Vincent van Hees wrote:
| Thanks, in that case the REPLEX for the issue may need to be:
| 
| > remember = Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_AS_DATA_FRAME_EXPLICIT_METHOD_")
| > Sys.setenv("_R_CHECK_AS_DATA_FRAME_EXPLICIT_METHOD_" = TRUE)
| > data.frame(time = Sys.time())
|                  time
| 1 2023-07-06 14:29:37
| > data.frame(time = as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()))
|                  time
| 1 2023-07-06 14:29:37
| Warning message:
| Direct call of 'as.data.frame.POSIXct()' is deprecated.  Use
| 'as.data.frame.vector()' or 'as.data.frame()' instead
| > Sys.setenv("_R_CHECK_AS_DATA_FRAME_EXPLICIT_METHOD_" = remember)

Does _not_ happen in a plain R session.

Does happen when `library(tidyverse)` is executed first. May come from
`tibble` or `vectors`, I have a habit of not using those much. 

Dirk
 
| Vincent
| 
| On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 at 10:41, Tim Taylor <tim.taylor using hiddenelephants.co.uk>
| wrote:
| 
| > Apologies - I've not had enough caffeine just yet. The reprex below
| > highlights the issue but I think the code which implemented the change
| > *may* need tweaking not lapply.
| >
| > Tim
| >
| > On 06/07/2023 09:26, Tim Taylor wrote:
| > > This *may* be an issue in lapply.  Let's see what others day. Reprex
| > > below
| > >
| > > Sys.setenv("_R_CHECK_AS_DATA_FRAME_EXPLICIT_METHOD_" = TRUE)
| > > dat <- Sys.Date()
| > > as.data.frame(dat)
| > > #>          dat
| > > #> 1 2023-07-06
| > > lapply(dat, as.data.frame)
| > > #> Warning: Direct call of 'as.data.frame.Date()' is deprecated.  Use
| > > #> 'as.data.frame.vector()' or 'as.data.frame()' instead
| > > #> [[1]]
| > > #>       X[[i]]
| > > #> 1 2023-07-06
| > >
| > > Tim
| > >
| > > On 06/07/2023 08:54, Vincent van Hees wrote:
| > >> Dear all,
| > >>
| > >> I see the following warning in my package test results:
| > >>
| > >> ```
| > >> Warning
| > >> Direct call of 'as.data.frame.POSIXct()' is deprecated.  Use
| > >> 'as.data.frame.vector()' or 'as.data.frame()' instead
| > >> ```
| > >>
| > >> The warning is not always there and I struggle to make it
| > >> reproducible. I
| > >> have encountered it in both Ubuntu 22.04 and in Windows 11, in both R
| > >> 4.3.0
| > >> and 4.3.1, in both RStudio and in an GitHub Actions environment (example
| > >> <https://github.com/wadpac/GGIR/actions/runs/5463862340/jobs/9945096566>).
| >
| > >>
| > >> The warning gives the impression that I am doing something that R no
| > >> longer
| > >> supports. However, I am not using the command as.data.frame.POSIXct()
| > >> anywhere directly in my code.
| > >>
| > >> When I dive into the code where the warnings occur I see patterns like:
| > >>
| > >> ```
| > >> now = Sys.time()
| > >> df = data.frame (time = seq(now, now + 10, by =1),  B  = 1:11)
| > >> ```
| > >>
| > >> (this is a simplification of for example:
| > >>
| > https://github.com/wadpac/GGIR/blob/master/tests/testthat/test_read.myacc.csv.R
| > >>
| > >> )
| > >>
| > >> Does this mean I am discouraged from putting a vector with POSIXct
| > >> values
| > >> in a data.frame?
| > >> If yes, what would be the recommended work around?
| > >>
| > >> I have been trying to find documentation or online discussions about
| > >> this
| > >> warning but no luck so far. I see R NEWS
| > >> <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html> mentions
| > >> updates to POSIXct related objects several times in the past year but
| > >> those
| > >> seem to be different issues.
| > >>
| > >> Best,
| > >>
| > >> Vincent
| > >>
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| > >>
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