Pr/180

[milktrader]

I pulled #180, corrected the path for the new tests

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.87%) to 76.55% when pulling 882282e on pr/180 into d39db57 on master.

[milktrader]

Fixing the problem behind this PR is something myself and @quinnj have put on the back burner. The kwarg where a format is specified should cover edge cases, but there needs to be a better parsing of possible combinations out there. I'm not really fond of how R has this hurdle to their odd time series conversions.

Here's the plan.

Track down where in Dates.jl datetime is parsed and simply update the regex engine being used there.

[multidis]

Would be helpful to merge the kwarg option so that it becomes usable in the master package version. Oftentimes I have to do multiple steps to reformat timestamps the way TimeSeries.jl can take it and passing the format string would solve that.

Even if a more robust regex parsing is introduced in the future (which may also depend on Julia 0.4 Base-dates support modifications), it is always helpful to have an option for the user to specify the exact format instead of hoping for correct parsing.

[milktrader]

Gotcha, good point. Not waiting for the perfect solution at the expense of a useful one. Let me get the documentation up to speed and we'll get this merged and tagged

[milktrader]

@multidis I changed the dtformat to simply format with the bold assumption that users will understand that format is a date format. It's also documented.

[milktrader]

fwiw, the zoo package in R uses the simple format kwarg.

[milktrader]

gah, got this on nightlies

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: Range1 not defined

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.43%) to 76.11% when pulling 401ecf1 on pr/180 into d39db57 on master.

[milktrader]

I'm going to merge this but hold off on tagging it until I can figure out what happened to Range1. I tried a quick Compat workaround but it didn't work.

[milktrader]

This has been included in tag 0.5.8 now. Needed to navigate a couple extra ERRORs.