A new release of the anytime package arrived on CRAN today—the first is well over four years. The package is fairly feature-complete, and code and functionality remain mature and stable, of course.
anytime
is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really
well: to convert anything in integer, numeric, character,
factor, ordered, … input format to either POSIXct (when called as
anytime) or Date objects (when called as
anydate) – and to do so without requiring a format
string as well as accomodating different formats in one input
vector. See the anytime page,
or the GitHub repo
for a few examples, and the beautiful documentation site
for all documentation.
This release slowly matured over four years. It combines a number of strictly internal repository maintenance such as changes to continuous integration with small enhancements (adding for example some new formats, responding better to an error condition, dealing with logical input as an error) with a relaxation of the C++ compilation standard. While we once needed C++11, it is now a constraint as as R itself is quite proactive (the last two releases defaulted already to C++17, suitable compiler permitting) we can now relax this constraint. The documentation site is new, as some other small changes. See the full list of changes which follows.
Changes in anytime version 0.3.10 (2024-12-02)
A new documentation site was added.
Continuous Integration now uses
run.shfrom r-ci with bspmLogical input vectors are now recognised as an error (#121)
Additional dot-separated format
'%Y.%m.%d'is supportedOther 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/Makevarscompiler flag options-Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-nonnull -Wno-parenthesesThe tinytest runner was simplified
NAvalues from conversion now trigger a warning
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report of changes relative to the previous release. The issue tracker tracker off the GitHub repo can be use for questions and comments. More information about the package is at the package page, the GitHub repo and the documentation site. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub.
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