On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch > wrote:
> > I think we should allow 'year' to be "double" instead, and so it > could also be +Inf or -Inf and we'd nicely cover > the conversions from and to 'numeric' -- which is really used > internally for dates and date-times in POSIXct. > > Martin > > That would be perfect and tackles both consistency with other formats and the confusing print() output. I'm all for it. Cheers Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
