A maintenance release 0.3.132 of the anytime package arrived on CRAN today. The package is fairly feature-complete, and code and functionality remain mature and stable.
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 covers a corner case reported in a GitHub issue: the
(nonsensical but possible) input of zero-length (floating point or
integer) vectors was not dealt with properly which lead to an error. We
now return the requested type (POSIXct or
Date, depending on the call) also with length zero. Two
minor maintenance tasks were also addressed since the last release six
months ago.
The short list of changes follows.
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 (numeric or integer) vector argument is now addressed, new tests have been added (#135)))
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.
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