Odd behavior of strptime

The strptime object is a structured list object with 9 components. (Type
"names(z)" to see the names of the individual components). You may want
to convert the strptime object to a POSIXct object using

Z = as.POSIXct(z)

This is just a vector (of the expected length).

Cheers,
Dave




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The example from the help page for strptime has the following oddity:

     dates <- c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92",

+                 "02/28/92", "02/01/92")

     times <- c("23:03:20", "22:29:56", "01:03:30",

+                 "18:21:03", "16:56:26")

     x <- paste(dates, times)
     z <- strptime(x, "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S")
     z

[1] "1992-02-27 23:03:20" "1992-02-27 22:29:56" "1992-01-14 01:03:30" 
"1992-02-28 18:21:03" "1992-02-01 16:56:26"

length(z)

[1] 9

The length is always denoted as 9.
Of course this implies that any replacement I want to do with dates etc.

always fails with the error:

Error in "[[<-.data.frame"(*tmp*, D[I], value = 
strptime(as.character(x[[D[I]]]),  : 
        replacement has 9 rows, data has 5970

version

_ 
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386 
os       mingw32 
system   i386, mingw32 
status 
major    1 
minor    7.0 
year     2003 
month    04 
day      16 
language R

(platform Win2000 professional)

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks,
Partha.


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The example from the help page for strptime has the following oddity:

    dates <- c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92",

+                 "02/28/92", "02/01/92")

    times <- c("23:03:20", "22:29:56", "01:03:30",

+                 "18:21:03", "16:56:26")

    x <- paste(dates, times)
    z <- strptime(x, "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S")
    z

[1] "1992-02-27 23:03:20" "1992-02-27 22:29:56" "1992-01-14 01:03:30" 
"1992-02-28 18:21:03" "1992-02-01 16:56:26"

length(z)

[1] 9

The length is always denoted as 9.
Of course this implies that any replacement I want to do with dates etc. 
always fails with the error:

Error in "[[<-.data.frame"(*tmp*, D[I], value = 
strptime(as.character(x[[D[I]]]),  : 
        replacement has 9 rows, data has 5970

version

         _ 
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386 
os       mingw32 
system   i386, mingw32 
status 
major    1 
minor    7.0 
year     2003 
month    04 
day      16 
language R 

(platform Win2000 professional)

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks,
Partha.

Hint, from ?POSIXlt:
"Class "POSIXlt" is a named list of [9] vectors representing ..."

Uwe Ligges