[R-sig-DB] RMySQL still treats timestamp as character?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, David James wrote:

> Hi Alexy,
>
> Dates in MySQL (and other databases) may span outside the range of
> currently supported
> POSIX implementations (ie., under 32-bits), thus the character
> representation is known
> to work regardless of the dates themselves, e.g., before the Unix epoch.

Possibly, but R uses doubles for datetimes, unlike POSIX, and also has a 
classs for dates.  (Datetimes prior to 1850 are very dubious anyway, as 
there were no timezones.)  In other words, R's date and datetime classes 
are known to work as accurately as character representations.

>
> Regards,
>
> --
> David,
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable using gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings -- downloaded RMySQL 0.6.0, and on a table with timestamps it gets
>> them over as character.  Found an email in this group from 2006, about
>> switching to RODBC, did that, got lovely floats...  Any progress on that for
>> RMySQL proper?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alexy
>>
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