R help - May 2002 - julian() in base depends on chron

It appears that julian() is in R-base, but julian.default() is in the 
chron package.

>  search()
[1] ".GlobalEnv"    "package:ctest" "Autoloads"   
"package:base"
>  julian(1:3,4:6,1991:1993)
Error in julian(1:3, 4:6, 1991:1993) : no applicable method for
"julian"
>  find('julian')
[1] "package:base"
>  library(chron)
>  julian(1:3,4:6,1991:1993)
[1] 7673 8070 8465
>  find('julian')
[1] "package:base"
>  search()
[1] ".GlobalEnv"    "package:chron"
"package:ctest" "Autoloads"
"package:base"
>  ls(5)[grep('julian',ls(5))]
[1] "julian"        "julian.POSIXt"
>  ls(2)[grep('julian',ls(2))]
[1] "julian.default" "julian2mine"   
"mine2julian"
>  version
          _
platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7
arch     sparc
os       solaris2.7
system   sparc, solaris2.7
status
major    1
minor    5.0
year     2002
month    04
day      29
language R

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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On Wed, 1 May 2002, Don MacQueen wrote:
> It appears that julian() is in R-base, but julian.default() is in the
> chron package.
Yes.  As far as R is concerned there is no default method for julian(),
so it does not really depend on chron.

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