[R] Exist the S 'dates' function in R?

[Uwe Ligges]

Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> > BTW: In Version 1.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2000-11-15)
> >
> > > dates(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92",
> > +                "02/28/92", "02/01/92"))
> > Error in names<-.default(*tmp*, value = fnames) :
> >         Unimplemented feature in duplicate
> > > dates("02/27/99")
> > Error in as.vector(x, "double") : cannot coerce to vector
> 
> Did you re-compile it for that version?  The CRAN Windows zip files are
> for 1.1.1.   Several packages need to be re-compiled, including chron.
> Come the release of 1.2.0 we will provide re-compiled versions.  Your
> example works for me.

Ups! Sorry! You are right. I didn't re-compile. Works also on Linux. 
What a blame!

Uwe
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