[R] spline bug ?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce L <mail at fwr.on.ca>
>>>>>     on Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:17:51 -0400 writes:

    Bruce> The bug reported above for "spline" is probably related to a similar problem with sequencing in POSIX dates.
    Bruce> For example this works ok:
    >> seq(from=1,to=4,out.length=4)
    Bruce> [1]  1  2  3  4 

    Bruce> But the following gives an output length of five, not four:
    >> seq(from=ISOdate(2000,1,1),to=ISOdate(2000,1,4),length.out=4)
    Bruce> [1] "2000-01-01 07:00:00 EST" "2000-01-02 01:00:00 EST"
    Bruce> [3] "2000-01-02 19:00:00 EST" "2000-01-03 13:00:00 EST"
    Bruce> [5] "2000-01-04 07:00:00 EST"

    Bruce> Surely this is a bug?

indeed.  Thanks a lot for reducing the problem so far!

The bug is in  seq.POSIXct()
and here is the fix -- soon to appear in "R-patched"  snapshots.

Index: src/library/base/R/datetime.R
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RCS file: /home/rdevel/CVS-ARCHIVE/R/src/library/base/R/datetime.R,v
retrieving revision 1.35.2.1
retrieving revision 1.35.2.2
diff -w -r1.35.2.1 -r1.35.2.2
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<         incr <- (to - from)/length.out
<         res <- seq.default(from, to, incr)
---
>         ## Till (and incl.) 1.6.0 :
>         ##- incr <- (to - from)/length.out
>         ##- res <- seq.default(from, to, incr)
>         res <- seq.default(from, to, length.out = length.out)

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