Re: [R] RFE: vectorized behavior for as.POSIXct tz argument

2011-12-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 2, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: David Winsemius comcast.net> writes: sapply(tz, function(ttt) as.POSIXct(x=x, tz=ttt, origin="1960-01-01"),simplify=FALSE) Sure, there's no end of workarounds. It would just be consistent to treat both the x and the tz arguments as vectors.

Re: [R] RFE: vectorized behavior for as.POSIXct tz argument

2011-12-02 Thread Jack Tanner
David Winsemius comcast.net> writes: > sapply(tz, function(ttt) as.POSIXct(x=x, tz=ttt, > origin="1960-01-01"),simplify=FALSE) Sure, there's no end of workarounds. It would just be consistent to treat both the x and the tz arguments as vectors. __ R

Re: [R] RFE: vectorized behavior for as.POSIXct tz argument

2011-12-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 2, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: x <- 1472562988 + 1:10; tz <- rep("EST",10) # Case 1: Works as documented ct <- as.POSIXct(x, tz=tz[1], origin="1960-01-01") # Case 2: Fails ct <- as.POSIXct(x, tz=tz, origin="1960-01-01") sapply(tz, function(ttt) as.POSIXct(x=x, tz=ttt, orig

[R] RFE: vectorized behavior for as.POSIXct tz argument

2011-12-02 Thread Jack Tanner
x <- 1472562988 + 1:10; tz <- rep("EST",10) # Case 1: Works as documented ct <- as.POSIXct(x, tz=tz[1], origin="1960-01-01") # Case 2: Fails ct <- as.POSIXct(x, tz=tz, origin="1960-01-01") If case 2 worked, it'd be a little easier to process paired (time, time zone) vectors from different time z