different behavior when calling as.Date with invalid date string

[comicfans]

with GNU-R

as.Date('2017-02-29')
Error in charToDate(x) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format

with fastr

as.Date('2017-02-29')
[1] "2017-02-28"

[steve-s]

Hi comicfans,

thank you for the report. We can reproduce and are working on a fix.

[steve-s]

this should be fixed now