fExtremes on the second-last day of the month

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Yohan,

fExtremes fails on the second-last day of the month, and as today is 
such a day and we've worked out the pattern, please take a look today:

* checking tests ...
   Running ‘doRUnit.R’ [40s/40s]
  ERROR
Running the tests in ‘tests/doRUnit.R’ failed.
Last 13 lines of output:
   fExtremes unit testing - 47 test functions, 2 errors, 0 failures
   ERROR in test.gevFitByBlocks: Error in as.matrix(applySeries(x, from, 
to, FUN = which.max)) :
     error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for 
function 'as.matrix': Error: NCOL(rowBind) == NCOL(x) is not TRUE

   ERROR in test.timeSeriesBlocks: Error in as.matrix(applySeries(x, 
from, to, FUN = which.max)) :
     error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for 
function 'as.matrix': Error: NCOL(rowBind) == NCOL(x) is not TRUE

   Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :

   unit testing failed (#test failures: 0, R errors: 2)

   Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval

The problem is to do with missing the last day of the month as the 
period finishes at midnight on the last day (and not at the end of the 
last day), and hence the records are empty.

There are several other issues, not least the maintainer and

Found the following significant note:
   running .First.lib() for package ‘fExtremes’ as .onLoad/.onAttach 
were not found


Brian

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