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Dates should use double type #357

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jennybc opened this issue Feb 2, 2016 · 0 comments
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Dates should use double type #357

jennybc opened this issue Feb 2, 2016 · 0 comments
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jennybc commented Feb 2, 2016

This is really esoteric but caused a test of mine to fail in a very puzzling way. Dates created by readr are different from those created all other ways (integer vs double).

library(readr)
xbase <- data.frame(d = as.Date(c("2016-02-02", NA)))
xdplyr <- dplyr::data_frame(d = as.Date(c("2016-02-02", NA)))
xreadr <- read_csv("d\n2016-02-02\nNA")

These appear to be the same, up to tbl_df-ness.

str(xbase)
#> 'data.frame':    2 obs. of  1 variable:
#>  $ d: Date, format: "2016-02-02" NA
str(xdplyr)
#> Classes 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame':    2 obs. of  1 variable:
#>  $ d: Date, format: "2016-02-02" NA
str(xreadr)
#> Classes 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame':    2 obs. of  1 variable:
#>  $ d: Date, format: "2016-02-02" NA

But the readr product stores its dates as integer vs numeric for the other two.

dput(xbase[2, , drop = FALSE])
#> structure(list(d = structure(NA_real_, class = "Date")), .Names = "d", row.names = 2L, class = "data.frame")
dput(xdplyr[2, ])
#> structure(list(d = structure(NA_real_, class = "Date")), .Names = "d", class = c("tbl_df", 
#> "data.frame"), row.names = c(NA, -1L))
dput(xreadr[2, ])
#> structure(list(d = structure(NA_integer_, class = "Date")), .Names = "d", class = c("tbl_df", 
#> "data.frame"), row.names = c(NA, -1L))

And it means even testthat::expect_equivalent() fails.

testthat::expect_equivalent(xdplyr, xreadr)
#> Error: xdplyr not equal to expected
#> Rows in x but not y: 2. Rows in y but not x: 2.
@hadley hadley changed the title representing dates with integer vs double Dates should use double type Jun 1, 2016
@hadley hadley added feature a feature request or enhancement ready labels Jun 1, 2016
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@jimhester jimhester added in progress bug an unexpected problem or unintended behavior and removed ready feature a feature request or enhancement labels Jun 7, 2016
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