Re: timeRelative

[Tony Plate <tplate@blackmesacapital.com>]

The example given in the docs of S-PLUS 7.0 works OK for me in S-PLUS 
7.0.  I suspect your problem is spaces after the '-' and "+".  (My docs 
don't have spaces, but your examples do.)
> version
Enterprise Developer Version 7.0.6  for Microsoft Windows : 2005
> timeDate(c("1998/1/5", "1998/2/26"), format = "%a %m/%d/%Y") + 
timeRelative("-a0mth -1fri +3fri")
[1] Fri 1/16/1998 Fri 2/20/1998
> timeDate(c("1998/1/5", "1998/2/26"), format = "%a %m/%d/%Y") + 
timeRelative("-a0mth -1fri + 3fri")
[1] NA NA
>

-- Tony Plate

David Huffer wrote:
> In the S-PLUS 6 for Windows Guide to Statistics, Volume 2 July
> (2001), page 186, the following code is given:
>
>   > rt <- timeRelative("-a0mth - 1fri + 3fri")
>   > timeDate(c("1/5/1998", "2/26/1998"),
>   + format = "%a %m/%d/%Y") + rt
>   [1] Fri 1/16/1998 Fri 2/20/1998
>
> I have not been able to reproduce this, using S-PLUS 6.2 for 
> Windows, build 6713:
>   > rt <- timeRelative("-a0mth - 1fri + 3fri")
>   > rt
>   [1] "-a0mth - 1fri + 3fri"
>   > timeDate(c("1/5/1998", "2/26/1998"), format = "%a %m/%d/%Y") + rt
>   [1] NA NA
>   >
>
> Is there a library or option i need to load or set?
>
> --
> Thanks!
> David
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