News for Package anytime

Changes in anytime version 0.3.12 (2025-07-14)

• Continuous integration now uses r-ci action with embedded bootstrap

• The versioned depends on Rcpp now requires 1.0.8 or newer to support use of the updated header file structure

• The corner-case of an empty character vector argument is now addressed, new tests have been added (#135)

Changes in anytime version 0.3.11 (2024-12-18)

• Skip one test file under another operating system

Changes in anytime version 0.3.10 (2024-12-02)

• A new documentation site was added.

• Continuous Integration now uses run.sh from r-ci with bspm

• Logical input vectors are now recognised as an error (#121)

• Additional dot-separated format '

• Other small updates were made throughout the package

• No longer set a C++ compilation standard as the default choices by R are sufficient for the package

• Switch Rcpp include file to Rcpp/Lightest

• We recommend ~/.R/Makevars compiler flag options -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-nonnull -Wno-parentheses

• The tinytest runner was simplified

• NA values from conversion now trigger a warning

Changes in anytime version 0.3.9 (2020-08-26)

• Skip one test file that is impossible to run across different CRAN setups, and life is definitely too short for these games.

• Change remaining http:// to https:// because, well, you know.

Changes in anytime version 0.3.8 (2020-07-23)

• A small utility function was added to detect the Linux distribution used in order to fine-tune tests once more.

• Travis now uses Ubuntu 'bionic' and R 4.0.*.

Changes in anytime version 0.3.7 (2020-01-20)

• Test and possibly condition away one more test file.

• Small enhancement for compilation by setting no-rtti define via Rcpp.

• New option calcUnique for speed-up by parseing only unique timestamps (Stephen Froehlich in #110 fixing #109).

Changes in anytime version 0.3.6 (2019-08-29)

• Added, and then removed, required file for JOSS; added 'unworthy' badge as we earned a desk reject (cf #1605 there).

• Renamed internal helper function format() to fmt() to avoid clashes with base::format() (Dirk in #104).

• Use S3 dispatch and generics for key functions (Dirk in #106).

• Continued to tweak tests as we find some of the rhub platform to behave strangely (Dirk via commits, #107, and #108).

• Added %e format for single-digit day parsing by Boost (Dirk addressing at least #24, #70 and #99).

• Expansed and updated vignette with benchmark comparisons.

• Updated unit tests using tinytest which remains a pleasure to use; versioned Suggests: is now '>= 1.0.0'.

Changes in anytime version 0.3.5 (2019-07-28)

• Fix use of Rcpp::Function-accessed Sys.setenv(), name all arguments in call to C++ (Christoph Sax in #95).

• Relax constraint on Windows testing in several test files (Christoph Sax in #97).

• Fix an issue related to TZ environment variable setting (Dirk in #101).

• Change useR=TRUE behaviour by directly calling R via Rcpp (Dirk in #103 fixing #96).

• Several updates to unit testing files aiming for more robust behaviour across platforms.

• Updated documentation in manual pages, README and vignette.

Changes in anytime version 0.3.4 (2019-06-18)

• Documentation was updated about a 'Europe/London' conversion issue (#84, inter alia).

• The package is now compiled under the C++11 standard.

• The package now uses tinytest for unit tests.

• The iso8601() function now places a ‘T’ between date and time; an option switches to prior format using a space.

• The vignette is now pre-made and included as-is in a Sweave document reducing the number of suggested packages.

Changes in anytime version 0.3.3 (2018-11-13)

• Vignette build quirkyness on Windows resolved so vignette reinstated.

• Documentation updated showing correct use of anydate (and not anytime) on input like ‘2016010’ following the 0.3.0 release heuristic change.

• Set #define for Boost to make compilation more quiet.

Changes in anytime version 0.3.2 (2018-11-05)

• Added a new vignette introducing the anytime package. Seemingly it cannot be compiled on Windows so included prebuilt.

• Some more tests for anydate were added along with so code coverage tags.

• The C++ code was robustified in two places to not trigger rchk warnings (#79).

• Three unit test files which fail on Solaris are now skipping this os as we cannot reproduce or test on this OS (#80).

Changes in anytime version 0.3.1 (2018-07-03)

• Numeric input is now preserved rather than silently cast to the return object type (#69 fixing #68).

• New assertion function assertDate() and assertTime().

• Unit tests were expanded for the new functions, for conversion from integer as well as for yyyymmdd().

Changes in anytime version 0.3.0 (2017-06-05)

• Numeric input is now always an offset to epoch, with anytime() using seconds, and anydate() using dates. (#65 fixing #63).

• Old behaviour can be re-enabled with an option also supporting a global setting getOption("anytimeOldHeuristic")

• RStudio versions 1.1.129 or later can run all functions without fear of crashing due to a change in their use of Boost.

• Replaced init.c with registration code inside of RcppExports.cpp thanks to Rcpp 0.12.11.

Changes in anytime version 0.2.2 (2017-03-21)

• Address corner case of integer-typed (large) values corresponding to POSIXct time (PR #57 closing ##56)

• Add special case for ‘Europe/London’ and 31 Oct 1971 BST change to avoid a one-hour offset error (#58 fixing #36 and #51)

• Address another corner case of numeric values corresponding to Date types which are now returned as Date

• Added file init.c with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols(); already used .registration=TRUE in useDynLib in NAMESPACE

Changes in anytime version 0.2.1 (2017-02-09)

• The new DatetimeVector class from Rcpp is now used, and proper versioned Depends: have been added (PR #43)

• The anydate and utcdate functions convert again from factor and ordered (PR #46 closing #44)

• A format similar to RFC 28122 but with additonal timezone text can now be parsed (PR #48 closing #47)

• Conversion from POSIXt to Date now also respect the timezone (PR #50 closing #49)

• The internal .onLoad functions was updated

• The Travis setup uses https to fetch the run script

Changes in anytime version 0.2.0 (2016-12-24)

• Added (exported) helper functions iso8601(), rfc2822() and rfc3339() to format date(time) objects according to standards

• Conversion to dates is now more robust thanks to improved internal processing (PR #39 closing #36)

• The ISO 8601 format is now recognised, however the timezone information is not parsed by Boost Date_Time (which is a known upstream limitation) (PR #38 closing #37)

• The 'allFormats.R' test script was significantly strengthened (#40)

• Test scripts like 'simpleTests.R' have as also been strengthened (#41); on Windows and in one file two tests need to be skipped.

• A new 'bulkTest.R' test script was added testing parsing against what R returns

Changes in anytime version 0.1.2 (2016-12-13)

• The (internal) string processing and splitting now uses Boost algorithm functions which avoids a (bizarre) bug on Windows. (#33)

• Test coverage was increased.

Changes in anytime version 0.1.1 (2016-11-27)

• Both anydate() and utcdate() no longer attempt to convert an input value that is already of type Date.

• The string splitter (needed for the 'all-digits' formats extending Boost Date_time) is now more defensive about the input argument and more robust. Thanks to Bob Jansen for the heads-up (PR #30 closing issue #29).

• Code coverage reporting has been added (PR #31).

Changes in anytime version 0.1.0 (2016-11-06)

• New functions utctime() and utcdate() were added to parse input as coordinated universal time; the functionality is also available in anytime() and anydate() via a new argument asUTC (PR #22)

• New (date)time format for RFC822-alike dates, and expanded existing datetime formats to all support fractional seconds (PR #21)

• Extended functionality to support not only ‘YYYYMMDD’ (without a separator, and not covered by Boost) but also with ‘HHMM’, ‘HHMMSS’ and ‘HHMMSS.ffffff’ (PR #30 fixing issue #29)

• Extended functionality to support ‘HHMMSS[.ffffff]’ following other date formats.

• Documentation and tests have been expanded; typos corrected

• New (unexported) helper functions setTZ, testOutput, setDebug

• The testFormat (and testOutput) functions cannot be called under RStudio (PR #27 fixing issue #25).

• More robust support for non-finite values such as NA, NaN or Inf (Fixing issue #16)

Changes in anytime version 0.0.4 (2016-10-20)

• Before converting via lexical_cast, assign to atomic type via template logic to avoid an UBSAN issue (PR #15 closing issue #14)

• More robust initialization and timezone information gathering.

• More robust processing of non-finite input also coping with non-finite values such as NA, NaN and Inf which all return NA

• Allow numeric POSIXt representation on input, also creating proper POSIXct (or, if requested, Date)

Changes in anytime version 0.0.3 (2016-10-13)

• Added (non-exported) helper function testFormat()

• Do not access tm_isdst on Windows for dates before the epoch (pull request #13 fixing issue #12); added test as well

Changes in anytime version 0.0.2 (2016-09-15)

• Refactored to use a simple class wrapped around two vector with (string) formats and locales; this allow for adding formats; also adds accessor for formats (#4, closes #1 and #3).

• New function addFormats() and getFormats().

• Relaxed one tests which showed problems on some platforms.

• Added as.POSIXlt() step to anydate() ensuring all POSIXlt components are set (#6 fixing #5).

Changes in anytime version 0.0.1 (2016-09-12)

• Initial release with anytime() and anydate