On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Whit Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > probably not pre-canned routines for that, but very easy to implement > with the tools provided in the library. > > Looks like most of what you want to do is fairly simple and not worth > the trouble of involving c++. > > but things like month_durations and year_durations make it clear that > the authors have been really thorough in their design:
Yes, the boost package looks very well designed. My main qualm would be it only adds to the multitude of date time packages: its, xts, tis, chron, zoo, not to mention the plethora of date time formats: Date, POSIXlt, POSIXct, chron, ... It's hard to know which package does what. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
