Now done, for R-devel only. This can't be high priority.
-pd
On 21 Aug 2014, at 09:28 , peter dalgaard wrote:
>
> So I think Peter Langfelder is absolutely right, remove the default, which is
> never used anyway, and possibly update the documentation with a more direct
> reference to strptim
On 21 Aug 2014, at 02:21 , Gabriel Becker wrote:
> Ah, my mistake, I read too fast. (My code is also wrong, embarassingly).
>
> It seems like it's behavior when you pass it "" is simply a bug, then.
>
> Sorry for the noise,
>
> ~G
>
It's not a bug, it's just that you are at the mercy of str
Your arguments seems like: "we can't fix bugs or improve anything because this
would break backward compatibility". If the described behavior should be
important on many common cases, create a new function. Or new release,
deprecated uses for some functions.
Or maybe, add a new argument that al
Ah, my mistake, I read too fast. (My code is also wrong, embarassingly).
It seems like it's behavior when you pass it "" is simply a bug, then.
Sorry for the noise,
~G
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Peter Langfelder <
peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:52 PM, G
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Gabriel Becker wrote:
> Could do both to preserve bc...
>
> if(missing(format) || !nchar(format))
>
No, the problem is that the function behaves differently when format
is missing than when it equals its default. Removing this difference
necessarily changes behavi
Could do both to preserve bc...
if(missing(format) || !nchar(format))
~G
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Peter Langfelder <
peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That would be my preferred solution, but it would break backwards
> compatibility for format="", so others may disagree.
>
> Peter
>
That would be my preferred solution, but it would break backwards
compatibility for format="", so others may disagree.
Peter
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Murdoch
wrote:
> On 20/08/2014, 4:11 PM, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>> The default format="" in as.Date.character is supremely confusi
On 20/08/2014, 4:11 PM, Peter Langfelder wrote:
> The default format="" in as.Date.character is supremely confusing. The
> help shows as.Date defined as
>
> ## S3 method for class 'character'
> as.Date(x, format = "", ...)
>
> yet the function behaves very differently when format is not spec
The default format="" in as.Date.character is supremely confusing. The
help shows as.Date defined as
## S3 method for class 'character'
as.Date(x, format = "", ...)
yet the function behaves very differently when format is not specified
and when it is specified to its default:
as.Date("2012-
