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Kurt, Uwe suggested I write to you as maintainer of chron ... at the start of is.weekend, in the check on the argument type, maybe just change chron() to as.chron()? This would ensure as.chron.POSIXt gets called on POSIXt arguments, and (I think) fixes the problem. I tested and it seems ok. No warning/error required. > is.weekend function(x) { if(!inherits(x, "dates"))

Dear R list, I noticed the following 'problem' when changing the format of dates created with seq.dates() (from the Chron library) using as.POSIXct() (R 1.8.0 on OSX 10.2.8): > datesTest<-seq.dates(from="10/01/1952", length=3, by="days"); > datesTest [1] 10/01/52 10/02/52 10/03/52 # Now changing the format to show year as 1952. >

Hi, The following function works, but is there a neater way to write it? f = function(x,...) { # return a character vector of the arguments passed in after 'x' gsub(" ","",unlist(strsplit(deparse(substitute(list(...))),"[(,)]")))[-1] } > f(x,a,b,c*d) [1] "a" "b" "c*d" > Thanks. [[alternative HTML

Hi, Please see below for post on r-help regarding data.frame() and the possibility of dropping rownames, for space and time reasons. I've made some changes, attached, and it seems to be working well. I see the expected space (90% saved) and time (10 times faster) savings. There are no doubt some bugs, and needs more work and testing, but I thought I would post first at this stage. Could some

Hi all; I've already send a similar e-mail to the list and Prof. Brian Ripley answered me but my doubts remain unresolved. Thanks for the clarification, but perhaps I wasn't clear enough in posting my questions. I've got a postgres database which I read into R. The first column is Timestamp with timezone, and my data are already in UTC format. An 'printed' extract of R

Hi all, Does anyone know a solution for this error ? > tkwidget(dlg, "iwidgets::spinint", range="{0 23}") Error in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class = "tclObj") : [tcl] wrong # args: should be ".31.1.19 configure -range {begin end}". Thanks, Matthew [[alternative HTML version

Hi, In the example below why is d 10 times bigger than m, according to object.size ? It also takes around 10 times as long to create, which fits with object.size() being truthful. gcinfo(TRUE) also indicates a great deal more garbage collector activity caused by data.frame() than matrix(). $ R --vanilla .... > nr = 1000000 > system.time(m<<-matrix(integer(1), nrow=nr, ncol=2)) [1]

Hello, I have a dataset which has fields giving both calendar date and weekday. I know better functions are now available, but I am still using chron because of the is.holiday() function and a homemade (even Heath Robinson would be ashamed) is.daylight() function. As a check for typos in the data input, I checked that the dates matched the weekdays. I'm getting some confusing results

Hi, n = 10000000 L = list(a=integer(n), b=integer(n)) L[[2]][1:10] gives me the first 10 items of the 2nd vector in the list L. It works fine. However it appears to copy the entire L[[2]] vector in memory first, before subsetting it. It seems reasonable that "[[" can't know that all that is to be done is to do [1:10] on the result and therefore a copy in memory of the entire

Hi list, I'm trying to turn a date into something productive. (Not what you may be thinking....) I want three functions so I could take a "date" object and get the day of week, month, and year from it. xx <- as.Date("2006-01-05") month(xx) equal 1 day(xx) equal 5 year(xx) equal 2006 I'm aware of the weekdays() and months() functions in the base package. But

R 3.5.0 Is it intended that the Date method of as.POSIXct does not respect the tz parameter? I suggest changing as.POSIXct.Date to this: function (x, tz = "", ...) .POSIXct(unclass(x) * 86400, tz = tz) Currently, the best workaround seems to be using the character method if one doesn't want the default timezone (which is often an annoying DST timezone). This came up on

Hi, Is there a way to define "+" so that "a"+"b" returns "ab" ? > setMethod("+",c("character","character"),paste) Error in setMethod("+", c("character", "character"), paste) : the method for function '+' and signature e1="character", e2="character" is sealed

Hi, I'm a bit confused how julian() works. If I understand right, it returns the number of days since the origin. I have a vector: > SLDATX[1:10] [1] "1986-01-06" "1986-01-17" "1986-02-02" "1986-02-04" [5] "1986-02-04" "1986-02-21" "1986-03-06" "1986-03-25" [9] "1986-04-06"

Hi, Is there a function taking a function as an argument, which returns all the functions it calls, and all the the functions those functions call, and so on? I could use Rprof, but that would involve executing the function, which may miss some branches of code. I'd really like a function which looks at the source code to work out all the functions that could possibly be called. When I

The interface for dates in R is a little confusing to me. I want to create a vector of Date objects from vectors of years, months, and days. One solution I found is: years <- c(1991, 1992) months <- c(1, 10) days <- c(1, 2) dates <- as.Date(ISOdate(years, months, days)) But, in this solution the ISOdate function converts the vectors into characters, which can cause serious

The problem with POSIXt is that you must consider timezones and daylight vs. standard time issues even if you don't want to. This violates modularity (viz. your routines becomes coupled to unrelated information) and leads to subtle errors where different routines are assuming different time zones. The problem is that the time, date, day of the week, month, etc. of a date depend on its

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From: Vitalie S. <vitosmail <at> rambler.ru> Subject: Bug in cut.POSIXt Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.r.general Date: 2009-10-15 15:47:48 GMT (1 hour and 29 minutes ago) Hello Everyone, Before reporting decided to post here first: tt <- structure(c(1254238817, 1254238859, 1254238969, 1254239080), class = c("POSIXt",

Hello, I've encountered the need to cut some chron objects of the form: R> mychron <- chron(sort(runif(10, 0, 10))) R> mychron [1] (01/01/70 16:36:20) (01/02/70 00:08:46) (01/03/70 16:54:49) [4] (01/04/70 06:45:00) (01/07/70 06:21:24) (01/07/70 18:28:44) [7] (01/08/70 00:47:05) (01/08/70 05:11:44) (01/10/70 01:07:53) [10] (01/10/70 17:46:53) into arbitrary (e.g. a given number

Hi, Given factors x and y, c(x,y) does not seem to return a useful result : > x [1] a b c d e Levels: a b c d e > y [1] d e f g h Levels: d e f g h > c(x,y) [1] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 > Is there a case for a new method c.factor as follows? Does something similar exist already? Is there a better way to write the function? > c.factor = function(x,y) { newlevels =