bind_rows POSIXct bug

[blasern]

The bind_rows function seems to have difficulties handeling as.POSIXct(NA). It also returns the rather unhelpful message

POSIXct, POSIXt incompatible with data of type: POSIXct, POSIXt

Below are some simple examples.

# bind_rows does not work
bind_rows(data.frame(date = as.POSIXct(NA)), 
          data.frame(date = as.POSIXct("2015-05-05")))
## Error during wrapup: incompatible type (data index: 2, column: 'date', was collecting: POSIXct, 
## POSIXt (dplyr::POSIXctCollecter<14>), incompatible with data of type: POSIXct, POSIXt

# same with rbind works
rbind(data.frame(date = as.POSIXct(NA)), 
      data.frame(date = as.POSIXct("2015-05-05")))

# funny that this works with logical NA 
bind_rows(data.frame(date = NA), 
          data.frame(date = as.POSIXct("2015-05-05")))

# also it works the other way around
bind_rows(data.frame(date = as.POSIXct("2015-05-05")), 
          data.frame(date = as.POSIXct(NA)))

[blasern]

This may be an issue with timezones?

dput(as.POSIXct(NA))
## structure(NA_real_, class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"))
dput(as.POSIXct("2015-05-05"))
## structure(1430776800, class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = "")

The two versions with the same timezones work:

bind_rows(data.frame(date = structure(NA_real_, class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = "")), 
          data.frame(date = structure(1430776800, class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = "")))
bind_rows(data.frame(date = structure(NA_real_, class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"))), 
          data.frame(date = structure(1430776800, class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"))))