I should have mentioned that it was in R-news. My mistake. Thanks Luke for
clarification.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:36 PM <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Abby Spurdle wrote:
>
> >> (1) Create a top-level help page with a title like "Date and Time
> >> Classes" to give a brief but general overview. This would mean the
> >> existing DateTimeClasses would need a new title.
> >
> > I wanted to modify my first suggestion.
> > Perhaps a better idea would be to reference an external document
> > giving an overview of the subject.
> > I couldn't find a discussion of POSIXct/POSIXlt objects in the R
> > manuals (unless I missed it somewhere), so perhaps "An Introduction to
> > R" could be updated to include this subject, and then the help files
> > could reference that?
> >
> > Mark Leeds has already mentioned one possible (unofficial) source.
> > And I suspect that there are others.
>
> Not entirely unofficial as it waw published in R News:
>
> @article{grothendieck2004r,
> title={R help desk: Date and time classes in R},
> author={Grothendieck, Gabor and Petzoldt, Thomas},
> journal={R News},
> volume={4},
> number={1},
> pages={29--32},
> year={2004}
> }
>
> Best,
>
> luke
>
> >
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