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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/03/25#rapidatetime_0.0.2"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Two days after the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/03/23#rapidatetime_0.0.1">initial 0.0.1 release</a>, a new version of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rapidatetime.html">RApiDatetime</a> has just arrived on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rapidatetime.html">RApiDatetime</a> provides six entry points for C-level functions of the R API for <code>Date</code> and <code>Datetime</code> calculations. The functions <code>asPOSIXlt</code> and <code>asPOSIXct</code> convert between long and compact datetime representation, <code>formatPOSIXlt</code> and <code>Rstrptime</code> convert to and from character strings, and <code>POSIXlt2D</code> and <code>D2POSIXlt</code> convert between <code>Date</code> and <code>POSIXlt</code> datetime. These six functions are all fairly essential and useful, but not one of them was previously exported by R.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://about.me/joshuaulrich">Josh Ulrich</a> took one hard look at the package — and added the one line we needed to enable the Windows support that was missing in the initial release. We now build on all platforms supported by R and CRAN. Otherwise, I just added a NEWS file and called it a bugfix release.</p>
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<h4>Changes in RApiDatetime version 0.0.2 (2017-03-25)</h4>
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<li>Windows support has added (Josh Ulrich in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rapidatetime/pull/1">#1</a>)</li>
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<h4>Changes in RApiDatetime version 0.0.1 (2017-03-23)</h4>
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<li>Initial release with six accessible functions</li>
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<p>Courtesy of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a>, there is a comparison to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2017/03/25#rapidatetime_0.0.2">the previous release</a>. More information is on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rapidatetime.html">rapidatetime</a> page.</p>
<p>For questions or comments please use the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rapidatetime/issues">issue tracker</a> off the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rapidatetime">GitHub repo</a>.</p>
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This post by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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