cut.Date and cut.POSIXt problem

I am using

[1] "R version 2.6.2 alpha (2008-01-26 r44181)"

and also get the same under:

"R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-03-13 r44752)"
Seems it did work as advertised in R 2.6.0 but is still broken in R-devel.  Will
take a look.

-roger

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
cut.Date and cut.POSIXt indicate that the breaks argument
can be an integer followed by a space followed by "year", etc.
but it seems the integer is ignored.

For example, I assume that breaks = "3 months" is supposed
to cut it into quarters but, in fact, it cuts it into months as if
3 had not been there.

d <- seq(Sys.Date(), length = 12, by = "month")
cut(d, "3 months")
 [1] 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01 2008-08-01
2008-09-01 2008-10-01 2008-11-01 2008-12-01 2009-01-01 2009-02-01
Levels: 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01
2008-08-01 2008-09-01 2008-10-01 2008-11-01 2008-12-01 2009-01-01
2009-02-01
cut(as.POSIXct(d), "3 months")
 [1] 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01 2008-08-01
2008-09-01 2008-10-01 2008-11-01 2008-12-01 2009-01-01 2009-02-01
Levels: 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01
2008-08-01 2008-09-01 2008-10-01 2008-11-01 2008-12-01 2009-01-01
2009-02-01
cut(as.POSIXlt(d), "3 months")
 [1] 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01 2008-08-01
2008-09-01 2008-10-01 2008-11-01 2008-12-01 2009-01-01 2009-02-01
Levels: 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01
2008-08-01 2008-09-01 2008-10-01 2008-11-01 2008-12-01 2009-01-01
2009-02-01

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cut.Date and cut.POSIXt problem

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