>>>>> Michael Chirico via R-devel writes: > today <- Sys.Date() > typeof(today) > # [1] "double" > typeof(seq(today, by=1, length.out=2)) > # [1] "integer"
> Clearly minor as it doesn't seem to have come up before (e.g. coercion > to numeric will happen automatically whenever fractional dates are > needed); I only noticed because of a test using identical failing: > identical( > seq(today, by=1, length.out=10), > today + 0:9 > ) > # [1] FALSE > It's easy in this case to fix the test using coercion, but this could > (and did in practice) come up at deeper levels of nesting that become > more onerous to handle. And using all.equal() comes with its own > tradeoffs. > The fix would be easy enough -- at a glance there are two usages of > .Date(seq.int(...)) in seq.Date() that could be replaced by > .Date(as.numeric(seq.int(...))). Thanks. Can you pls provide a patch for these? Best -k > Mike C > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel