While reading ?as.POSIXlt a possible typo caught my eye. The "diff -u" output based on R-devel downloaded today vs. a suggested change is below. Thank you, Stephen --- as.POSIXlt.Rd Mon Oct 17 10:50:06 2005 +++ /tmp/as.POSIXlt.Rd Mon Nov 14 09:48:48 2005 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ \details{ The \code{as.POSIX*} functions convert an object to one of the two classes used to represent date/times (calendar dates plus time to the - nearest second). They can take convert a wide variety of objects, + nearest second). They can convert a wide variety of objects, including objects of the other class and of classes \code{"Date"}, \code{"date"} (from package \pkg{\link[date:as.date]{date}} or \pkg{\link[survival:as.date]{survival}}), \code{"chron"} and :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Stephen Weigand Division of Biostatistics Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn., USA Phone (507) 266-1650, fax 284-9542