Re: [Rd] ISOdate/ISOdatetime performance suggestions, other date/time questions

2008-04-10 Thread Sklyar, Oleg (MI London)
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[Rd] ISOdate/ISOdatetime performance suggestions, other date/time questions

2008-04-10 Thread Sklyar, Oleg (MI London)
Dear list: working with date/times I have come across a problem that ISOdate and ISOdatetime are too slow on large vectors of data. I was surprised just until I looked at the implementation and the man page: "ISOdatetime and ISOdate are convenience wrappers for strptime". In other terms, they conv