[Rd] new chron problems in RW0990

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> From: "Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi" <jens.oehlschlaegel-akiyoshi@mdfactory.de>
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:56:36 +0100
> 
> In RW0901 I could
> 
> > dates("01/01/2000")
> [1] 01/01/100
> 
> where only the printing was wrong, but the double numeric representation of
> the chron object was calculated correctly
> 
> but now in RW0990

The difference is not in rw0901/rw0990 but in the version of chron
in use.  There is an rw0901 version of chron 2.2-2 too.

> > dates("01/01/2000")
> Error in fun(yy, ...) : must be 2-digit (numeric) year specification
> 
> and also the followig doesn't help
> 
> > dates("01/01/2000", format="dd/mm/yyyy")
> Error in names<-.default(*tmp*, value = fnames) :
>    names attribute must be the same length as the vector
> In addition: Warning message:
> wrong number of fields in entry(ies) 1 in: unpaste(dates., sep = fmt$sep,
> fnames = fmt$periods, nfields = 3)
> 
> Shall I send a bug report or is this a known problem?

That happens for me on Unix.  If there is not already a bug report, send one.


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