People who don't like this behaviour (and particularly those who dislike it as much as I do), should consider as.date() from the dates package as an alternative. Gives you a NA if the specified date is impossible (at least in all the examples given earlier).
Is the behaviour of ISOtime() and strptime() determined by ISO or POSIX standard? Seems not to fit R's "no nannying" policy at all. Or maybe it's the future: in version 1.9 will I be able to type glm() and have R take a best guess at the model specification I had in mind? > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Expect to get the best guess at what you intended, and expect this to > depend on your OS. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > Simon Fear Senior Statistician Syne qua non Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1379 644449 Fax: +44 (0) 1379 644445 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.synequanon.com Number of attachments included with this message: 0 This message (and any associated files) is confidential and\...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help