A new minor release of the anytime package is arriving on CRAN. This is the fifteenth release, and first since the 0.3.3 release in November.

anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to either POSIXct or Date objects – and to do so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page, or the GitHub README.md for a few examples.

This release is mostly internal and switches to the excellent new tinytest package, a tweak the iso8601() format helper which now uses T between date and time (which is a breaking change with the usual addition of a option to get the old behaviour back) and a little more. The full list of changes follows.

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.

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More information is on the anytime page. The issue tracker tracker off the GitHub repo can be use for questions and comments.

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