ymd(my_vector) silently parses "2013-0-1" as part of my_vector

[nacnudus]

library(lubridate)

a <- c("2013-1-1", "2013-0-1")
b <- "2013-0-1"

ymd(a)

[1] "2013-01-01 UTC" "2013-01-01 UTC"

ymd(b)

Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.

[1] NA

sessionInfo()

R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06)

Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:

[1] LC_COLLATE=English_New Zealand.1252

[2] LC_CTYPE=English_New Zealand.1252

[3] LC_MONETARY=English_New Zealand.1252

[4] LC_NUMERIC=C

[5] LC_TIME=English_New Zealand.1252

attached base packages:

[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:

[1] lubridate_1.3.3 knitr_1.5

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] digest_0.6.4 evaluate_0.5.3 formatR_0.10 memoise_0.1

[5] plyr_1.8.1 Rcpp_0

[nacnudus]

Ugh, sorry about the formatting. Didn't look like that in the "preview". Can't seem to edit it now.

[vspinu]

"2013-0-1" is not a date, is it? Where did you get it from?

It works by accident because the underlying C parser is a bit relaxed about the 0s in a couple of places. The format detection is rigorous, though, and this is why your b vector fails.

So your point is to make the parser fail on a right? Or make it work on b?

[nacnudus]

Correct, "2013-0-1" is not a date, and I would expect the parser to fail on it. I got it by doing paste(x$year, x$month, x$day, sep = "-") on dirty data that had a zero in the month column.

Thanks for all the lubridate functions that do work, by the way, they save me hours every week.