Re: [Rd] For integer vectors, `as(x, "numeric")` has no effect.

2015-12-08 Thread Martin Maechler
> John Chambers > on Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:05:59 -0800 writes: > We do need an explicit method here, I think. > The issue is that as() uses methods for the generic function coerce() but cannot use inheritance in the usual way (if it did, you would be immediately back with no ch

Re: [Rd] inconsistency in POSIXlt

2015-12-08 Thread Lorenz, David
Gabriel, Thanks. I'm just frustrated by the inconsistencies in what I see in POSIXlt. I'm not even sure what the tzone attribute does. Here's an example that show behavior different from POSIXct. > tl <- as.POSIXlt("2001-04-05 12:00", tz="America/Chicago") > tl [1] "2001-04-05 12:00:00 CDT" > at