Re: [R] Output from file.info()$mtime

2014-08-08 Thread Fisher Dennis
Professor Ripley You asked “how that managed to give TRUE? (I apologize for the mangled quotes — the error occurred with plain quotes). All that I can say is that R versions <= 3.1.0 allowed my code to execute without error. The bug report appears to address the issue. I typically review Dalg

Re: [R] Output from file.info()$mtime

2014-08-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 07/08/2014 23:37, Fisher Dennis wrote: R 3.1.1 OS X (and Windows) Colleagues I have some code that manages files. Previously (as late as 3.1.0), the command: file.info(FILENAME)$mtime == “” yielded T/F Now, it triggers an error: Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) :

Re: [R] Output from file.info()$mtime

2014-08-07 Thread Sarah Goslee
Are you aware you have so-called smart quotes in your R code? That can cause all sorts of interesting errors, though I don't get the exact one you report. Sarah On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Fisher Dennis wrote: > R 3.1.1 > OS X (and Windows) > > Colleagues > > I have some code that manages fi

[R] Output from file.info()$mtime

2014-08-07 Thread Fisher Dennis
R 3.1.1 OS X (and Windows) Colleagues I have some code that manages files. Previously (as late as 3.1.0), the command: file.info(FILENAME)$mtime == “” yielded T/F Now, it triggers an error: Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) : character string is not in a stan