Re: timeRelative

["David Huffer" <David.Huffer@csosa.gov>]

On Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:50 AM, Tony Plate wrote:

 > ...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.)...

Yes, that is indeed the problem:

  >  rt <- timeRelative("-a0mth - 1fri + 3fri")
  >  timeDate(c("1/5/1998", "2/26/1998"),format = "%a %m/%d/%Y") + rt
  [1] NA NA
  >

versus

  >  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
  > 

--
Thanks,
David