single digit dates with unambiguous month and year

[millerjef]

I am trying to parse:
anydate("August 4, 2018")

This returns NA. Frankly, this is consistent with the documentation in that anydate doesn't handle single digit days; however, I would argue that with the explicit month (August) and year (2018) that the algorithm (Boost Date_Time library) should be able to process this. Perhaps this issue is really with Boost Date_Time, if so, please let me know and I will post there.

Thanks! I appreciate your package!

[eddelbuettel]

It's a Boost limitation together with a not-present-by-default format:

> library(anytime)
> addFormats("%B %d, %Y")
> anydate("August 04, 2018")
[1] "2018-08-04"
> 

It requires the 0 I am afraid, and I can see little that can be done here.

[eddelbuettel]

Closing as duplicate, see

• #24
• #70

You can use useR=TRUE for the R parseer.

[eddelbuettel]

Good news - this now works in master (and hence the next release probably at the end of the month):

 R> anydate("August 4, 2018")
 [1] "2018-08-04"
 R>

[millerjef]

Great news! Thank you!

[eddelbuettel]

Yes, makes me happy too as this was a wart. A bit embarassed it too me so long to find the obvious fix. But better late than never 😀