From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Mar 24 10:02:31 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 24 11:02:42 2003
Subject: [Rd] error in POSIX help
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Mike Sumner wrote:

> Hello, the documentation for POSIXct and POSIXlt
> refers to the timezone keyword as "TZ".  The functions
> expect "tz".

There are no functions POSIXct nor POSIXlt.  ?POSIXct sends you to the
help on the *class* "POSIXct", and that refers explicitly to the
*environment variable* TZ, not a `keyword', whatever that is.

There are functions as.POSIXct and as.POSIXlt expecting argument tz, and
that is how they are documented.

> BTW, is this where errors/ bugs should be reported?

See the R FAQ.  But please, reports as confused as this one just divert 
the developers from real work.

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[Rd] error in POSIX help
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