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[#6465] print.xtable prints dates as numerics in data.frames

Date:
2016-09-20 10:22
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Submitted by:
Sergiusz Bleja (sergiuszbleja)
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Summary:
print.xtable prints dates as numerics in data.frames

Detailed description
I'm not sure whether this is a bug of a feature request, but a feature request feels more constructive :)

A minimal reproducible example:
library(xtable)
a= data.frame(a = as.Date("2016-09-29"))
print(xtable(a))

This will print 17073.00 rather than the date. A conversion using as.character is a work around but somewhat cumbersome.

Can xtable be changed to print the above as a date rather than numeric? Can I help making this happen?

Thanks

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Date: 2017-01-20 17:46
Sender: Sergiusz Bleja

I've cloned the read only version github and added this change:
https://github.com/tim-group/xtable

If you want to apply the patch it's here: https://github.com/tim-group/xtable/commit/668475cbbe6a9b4aa6bb80a139392b5822be5545?diff=unified

A suggestion would be to migrate this project to github which enable collaboration more. Let me know if you would like some help with this.

Thanks
Sergiusz

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