Re: [Rd] [External] Re: Help useRs to use R's own Time/Date objects more efficiently

2020-04-05 Thread Mark Leeds
I should have mentioned that it was in R-news. My mistake. Thanks Luke for clarification. On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:36 PM wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Abby Spurdle wrote: > > >> (1) Create a top-level help page with a title like "Date and Time > >> Classes" to give a brief but general overview.

Re: [Rd] Plotmath on Fedora 31 broken with with pango >= 1.44 - workarounds?

2020-04-05 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi The R branch ... https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-symfam/ ... is now set up so that it works "out of the box" on Fedora by setting the default to be 'symbolfamily=cairoSymbolFont(family, usePUA=FALSE)' when grSoftVersion()["pango"] is greater than "1.44". This means that on Fedora

Re: [Rd] [External] Re: Help useRs to use R's own Time/Date objects more efficiently

2020-04-05 Thread luke-tierney
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Abby Spurdle wrote: (1) Create a top-level help page with a title like "Date and Time Classes" to give a brief but general overview. This would mean the existing DateTimeClasses would need a new title. I wanted to modify my first suggestion. Perhaps a better idea would be t

Re: [Rd] Help useRs to use R's own Time/Date objects more efficiently

2020-04-05 Thread Abby Spurdle
> (1) Create a top-level help page with a title like "Date and Time > Classes" to give a brief but general overview. This would mean the > existing DateTimeClasses would need a new title. I wanted to modify my first suggestion. Perhaps a better idea would be to reference an external document givin

Re: [Rd] Help useRs to use R's own Time/Date objects more efficiently

2020-04-05 Thread Mark Leeds
Hi All: I've been following this thread and just want to add one pointer. For those who aren't interested in using new packages that try to make dates-times easier but also find the base R tools confusing, below is link to an extremely well written document from over 15 years ago. It's probably al

Re: [Rd] Help useRs to use R's own Time/Date objects more efficiently

2020-04-05 Thread Abby Spurdle
I think POSIXct and POSIXlt are badly-chosen names. The name "POSIX" implies UNIX. (i.e. XYZix operating system is mostly POSIX compliant... Woo-Hoo!). My assumption is that most people modelling industrial/econometric data etc, or data imported from databases, don't want system references everywhe