chron vs. POSIX
On 7/14/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense to | include chron in base R? Given that flexibility for handling time Future historians will provide a fuller account of the extended debates, but my reading of these discussions here over the last few years leaves me with the impression that Gabor is arguing for chron in a manner that is simultaneously informed, polite, persistent and yet ... utterly isolated. Date and POSIXt have served me well over the last few years. They are maintained and being extended [ 1 ]. Chron, to the best of my knowledge, is dead code so I'd bet against it appearing in core R any time soon. Regards, Dirk [ 1 ] I had some pleasant exchanges with Brian Ripley where I was able to suggest a few extension relative to the new millisecond granularity in POSIXt and its interfaces.
Recent releases of chron include - July 14th (today!), see http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/chron.html - June 23rd (less than one month ago), - May 9th (two months ago) (this may not be a complete list of recent releases) so I would characterize chron as actively maintained and given the occasional question on r-help its likely that its widely used too.