date format for Problem1_from and _to

[davidgeorg...@gmail.com]

Juergen

In the Stations data frame Setup_date and Retrieval_date will accept a variety of date formats. These attributes work with other functions. The same does not seem to be true for the Problem1_from and Problem1_to.  These must plain character dates?

If so, that seems (slightly) inconsistent?

David

[Juergen Niedballa]

Hi David,

a fix is implemented in the development version already, but not released yet. So for time being, please convert the Problem columns to character before using cameraOperation(). The easiest way would be to run as.character(). Or use the code snippet below, which is straight from the function and converts all problem columns to character.

 # find problem columns

    cols.prob.from <- grep(colnames(CTtable), pattern = "Problem\\d\\Sfrom")

    cols.prob.to   <- grep(colnames(CTtable), pattern = "Problem\\d\\Sto")

    

    # convert problem columns to character

    for(problem_col_index in c(cols.prob.from, cols.prob.to)){

      CTtable[, problem_col_index] <- as.character(CTtable[, problem_col_index])

    }

In the next release it will be done automatically inside the function. Currently, it is work in progress as I'm changing a few more things in cameraOperation(). I'll notify you here in the group when the new version is released.

Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,

Jürgen