On 9 March 2017 at 01:29, Arunkumar Srinivasan <arunkumar.sri...@gmail.com> wrote: > The time info is lost on the first index as well. And it happens *silently*.
Yes, because it assumes homogeneous format on the entire vector. You may want to do two passes with different formats or run a regular expression to catch typos. > lapply(x, as.POSIXct) > A list is returned, but values are as I’d expect. Would it be possible > to retain the time info with as.POSIXct(x) directly as well? If not, This behaves differently because you are running as.POSIXct for each element separately. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel