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Kurt, Cool idea and great "seeing new faces" on here proposing things on here and engaging with R-core on here. Some comments on the issue of fallbacks below. On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:33 PM Kurt Van Dijck < dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote: > Hey, > > In the meantime, I submitted a bug. Thanks for the assistence on that. > > > and I'm not convinced that > > coercion failures should fallback gracefully to the default. > > the gracefull fallback: > - makes the code more complex &...

...as.POSIXlt makes a copy in the users namespace, and read.table would still take the base version of as.POSIXlt. Rather than fixing my specific requirement, this hook allows to probe for any custom format and do smart things with little syntax. Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> --- src/library/utils/R/readtable.R | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/library/utils/R/readtable.R b/src/library/utils/R/readtable.R index 238542e..076a707 100644 --- a/src/library/utils/R/readtable.R +++ b/src/library/utils/R/readtable.R @@...

...ced that coercion failures should fallback gracefully to the default. Feature requests fall under a "bug" in bugzilla terminology, so please submit this there. I think I've made you an account. Thanks, Michael On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:19 PM Kurt Van Dijck < dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote: > Thank you for your answers. > I rather do not file a new bug, since what I coded isn't really a bug. > > The problem I (my colleagues) have today is very stupid: > We read .csv files with a lot of columns, of which most contain > date-time stamps, coded in DD/...

Please file a bug on bugzilla so we can discuss this further. On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:53 AM Kurt Van Dijck < dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to find out if this patch is ok or not, and if not, what should > change. > > Kind regards, > Kurt > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r...

...wrote: > Kurt, > Cool idea and great "seeing new faces" on here proposing things on here > and engaging with R-core on here. > Some comments on the issue of fallbacks below. > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:33 PM Kurt Van Dijck > <[1]dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote: > > Hey, > In the meantime, I submitted a bug. Thanks for the assistence on > that. > > and I'm not convinced that > > coercion failures should fallback gracefully to the default. > the gracefull fallback: > -...

...to the default. > Feature requests fall under a "bug" in bugzilla terminology, so please > submit this there. I think I've made you an account. > Thanks, > Michael > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:19 PM Kurt Van Dijck > <[1]dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote: > > Thank you for your answers. > I rather do not file a new bug, since what I coded isn't really a > bug. > The problem I (my colleagues) have today is very stupid: > We read .csv files with a lot of columns, of which most contain >...

You need admin assistance, someone will probably see your request here and fulfill it. It might be helpful to read this question/answer on StackOverflow discussing the context of proposing patches to base R functionality ... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8065835/proposing-feature-requests-to-the-r-core-team cheers Ben Bolker On 2019-03-26 4:20 p.m., Kurt Van Dijck wrote: > On

...no 32<->64 bit issues) as it's mainly character processing. The patch is relative to the foreign directory. It was created against the trunk of R-project yesterday. We would appreciate that you import such patch into the main tree. Kind regards, Kurt Van Dijck (C programmer) & Ilse Laurijssen (R user) Belgium Index: src/sfm-read.c =================================================================== --- src/sfm-read.c (revision 5168) +++ src/sfm-read.c (working copy) @@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ static int read_variables (struct file_handle * h, struct variable *** var_by_index); static int r...