Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/15/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/15/2006 1:37 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > On 7/15/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 7/15/2006 1:01 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >>> On 7/14/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/14/2006 3:38

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/15/2006 1:37 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 7/15/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/15/2006 1:01 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>> On 7/14/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/14/2006 3:38 PM, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Hi, > > One of the big

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/15/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/15/2006 1:01 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > On 7/14/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 7/14/2006 3:38 PM, Sebastian Luque wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/15/2006 1:01 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 7/14/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/14/2006 3:38 PM, Sebastian Luque wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates and >>> times. Gabor Grothendieck provided an excellent overview

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/14/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/14/2006 3:38 PM, Sebastian Luque wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates and > > times. Gabor Grothendieck provided an excellent overview of the issue in > > his R News 4/1 (2004) article,

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/14/2006 3:38 PM, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Hi, > > One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates and > times. Gabor Grothendieck provided an excellent overview of the issue in > his R News 4/1 (2004) article, and many users and developers are probably > using it as a guide

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Sebastian Luque
[Sorry for my previous empty post] Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: > | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense > | to include chron in base R? Given that flexibility for handling time > Future historia

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 July 2006 at 16:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 7/14/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Date and POSIXt have served me well over the last few years. They are | > maintained and being extended [ 1 ]. Chron, to the best of my knowledge, is | > dead code so I'd bet against

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Sebastian Luque
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense to | include chron in base R? Given that flexibility for handling time Future historians will provide a fuller account of the ext

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/14/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: > | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense to > | include chron in base R? Given that flexibility for handling time > > Future historians will provide a full

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense to | include chron in base R? Given that flexibility for handling time Future historians will provide a fuller account of the extended debates, but my reading of these discuss

[Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates and times. Gabor Grothendieck provided an excellent overview of the issue in his R News 4/1 (2004) article, and many users and developers are probably using it as a guide. The proposed guideline is to use the simplest class re