[R] How to convert number (matlab) to date

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 20:19 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2011, at 16:36 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> .....
>>>>>
>>>>> However, this was after reinstalling and reloading zoo. Restarting R and retrying did indeed make things work.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does the fact that it worked if R was restarted, but not without,
>>>> imply that there is something in R that needs to be fixed?
>>>
>>> Well, zoo is rewriting code in base. Apparently, it didn't do it again on the second library(zoo). Not really sure who to blame for what...
>>>
>>
>> Its done in the .onLoad function in zzz.R in zoo.  It seems that if
>> one re-installs zoo and then runs it that the .onLoad is not rerun.  I
>> would have thought it would reload the package and therefore .onLoad
>> would be run again..
>>
>> Also there exists .onAttach but its not used by zoo.  Should the code
>> for as.Date.numeric be put in an .onAttach instead or in both .onLoad
>> and .onAttach?
>
> Or perhaps not at all!
>
> I'll leave this discussion for others.
>

An INSTALL file has been added to zoo to ask users to restart R after
installing zoo.


-- 
Statistics & Software Consulting
GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc.
tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP
email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com