We spotted that there were problems, and have realized that the as.Date.numeric was a left-over form earlier; it will be removed in the next version of the Epi package. Thanks for the help. br. Bendix
> -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: 9. februar 2011 11:48 > To: Philipp Pagel > Cc: BXC (Bendix Carstensen); r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] as.Date > > And I am hereby reporting this bug to the package maintainer. > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Philipp Pagel wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Valeri Fabio wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I find out which package disturbs as.Date(). It is the package Epi: > >> > >>> as.Date(36525, origin="1900-01-01") > >> [1] "2000-01-02" > >>> library(Epi) > >>> as.Date(36525, origin="1900-01-01") > >> [1] "2070-01-01" > >>> detach("package:Epi") > >>> as.Date(36525, origin="1900-01-01") > >> [1] "2000-01-02" > > > > OK - that makes sense. Epi has its own as.Date.numeric function and > > upon loading the package you get a warning: > > > > > >> library(Epi) > > Attaching package: 'Epi' > > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base': > > as.Date.numeric, merge.data.frame > > > > > > A quick look at the manual page confirms that Epi's version > does not > > have an origin option. > > > > cu > > Philipp > > > > -- > > Dr. Philipp Pagel > > Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universität > > München Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3 > > 85354 Freising, Germany > > http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/~pagel/ > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
