?ifelse will give you
Warning
The mode of the result may depend on the value of test, and the class
attribute of the result is taken from test and may be inappropriate for the
values selected from yes and no.
i think it might answer your question,
Weiwei
On Dec 30, 2007 1:45 AM, Mikkel Grum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the following expected behaviour for a date used in
> an ifelse function?
>
> > date <- Sys.Date()
> > date
> [1] "2007-12-30"
> > ifelse(TRUE, date-1, date)
> [1] 13876
> > ifelse(FALSE, date-1, date)
> [1] 13877
> > ifelse(TRUE, as.character(date-1), date)
> [1] "2007-12-29"
> > if (TRUE) {date}
> [1] "2007-12-30"
>
> It would seem more natural to me if a date produced
> the same format in an if and an ifelse function.
> Moreover, as far as I can see the ifelse function
> consists of hardly anything but two if functions.
>
> Mikkel
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
>
> LC_COLLATE=English_Ireland.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Ireland.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Ireland.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Ireland.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
> methods base
>
>
>
>
>
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