anytime arrived on CRAN via release 0.0.1 a good two days ago. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects.

This new release 0.0.2 adds two new functions to gather conversion formats — and set new ones. It also fixed a minor build bug, and robustifies a conversion which was seen to be not quite right under some time zones.

The NEWS file summarises the release:

Changes in Rcpp 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).

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More information is on the anytime page.

For questions or comments use the issue tracker off the GitHub repo.

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