[Rd] [[<-.data.frame with POSIXt replacement (PR#4808)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It is not a bug in 1.8.0.  It was a bug in 1.7.0 (and .1).
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You cannot assign a POSIXlt value to a data frame correctly.

Please do RTFM, especially the NEWS file.  We don't need smart alecks 
here.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 jrogers at cantatapharm.com wrote:

> The following seems to be a bug introduced with version 1.8.0 (it worked
> without error on my installation of version 1.7.0):
> 
> > test <- data.frame(time = I(c("2003-08-19:22:55:57")))
> > test[["time"]] <- strptime(test[["time"]], format =
> "%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S")
> Error in "[[<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, "time", value =
> strptime(test[["time"]],  : 
> 	replacement has 9 rows, data has 1
> > ## This generates the same error:
> > # test$time <- strptime(test$time, format = "%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S")
> 
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    8.0            
> year     2003           
> month    10             
> day      08             
> language R            
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim 
> 
> James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers at cantatapharm.com>
> Statistical Scientist
> Cantata Pharmaceuticals
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> Cambridge, MA  02139
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> Fax 617.225.9010
> 
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