> (1) Create a top-level help page with a title like "Date and Time
> Classes" to give a brief but general overview. This would mean the
> existing DateTimeClasses would need a new title.
I wanted to modify my first suggestion.
Perhaps a better idea would be to reference an external document
givin
Hi All: I've been following this thread and just want to add one pointer.
For those who aren't interested in using new packages that try to make
dates-times easier but also find the
base R tools confusing, below is link to an extremely well written document
from over 15 years ago. It's probably
al
I think POSIXct and POSIXlt are badly-chosen names.
The name "POSIX" implies UNIX.
(i.e. XYZix operating system is mostly POSIX compliant... Woo-Hoo!).
My assumption is that most people modelling industrial/econometric
data etc, or data imported from databases, don't want system
references everywhe
As with many areas of R usage, my view is that the concern is one
of making it easier to find appropriate information quickly. The
difficulty is that different users have different needs. So if
one wants to know (most of) what is available, the Time Series
Task View is helpful. If one is a novice,
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 11:51, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
> This is mostly a RFC [but *not* about the many extra packages, please..]:
>
> Noticing to my chagrin how my students work in a project,
> googling for R code and cut'n'pasting stuff together, accumulating
> this and that package on the way
This is mostly a RFC [but *not* about the many extra packages, please..]:
Noticing to my chagrin how my students work in a project,
googling for R code and cut'n'pasting stuff together, accumulating
this and that package on the way all just for simple daily time series
(though with partly missi
