I have just found the solution.
We have a custom Linux distribution that allows us to have several R (+
glibc and others) versions in parallel for tools related to our job domain.
We have another etc/ folder for those tools and R looks for the
localtime file there, not in /etc/.
So linking /etc/localtime to our etc/ folder makes R happy and
x <- as.POSIXct("2002-02-02 02:02")
works fine!
Sébastien
Hi Ben
Thanks for your answer
I have already tried this, as well as
x <- as.POSIXct(strptime("2002-02-02 02:02", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"))
It works! But it does not fix it widely for all tests used during the
"make check" step at compile time. Unless I patch all of them.
There is something with localtime but I cannot find what.
On another machine with another Linux OS, and the same environmental
variables
x <- as.POSIXct("2002-02-02 02:02")
works fine.
Sébastien
Hi,
I can't answer the question about R 3.3.3, but I don't see anything in
the update notes.
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html
In the meantime, would it skirt your issue if you explicitly stated
the format?
x <- as.POSIXct("2002-02-02 02:02", format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
Ben
On Apr 5, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Sebastien Moretti
<sebastien.more...@unil.ch> wrote:
Hi
I have lots of issues when I try to install R 3.3.3 during the "make
check" step.
Every time a call to as.POSIXct is done in test scripts, I got the
same error message:
e.g. x <- as.POSIXct("2002-02-02 02:02")
Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
It looks to be linked to localtime but when I compiled R 3.3.2 6
months ago, the same test scripts were there and succeeded.
Is there an environmental variable to use to change the as.POSIXct
behavior?
Regards
--
Sébastien
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