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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">Dear Datatable-Help:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">I’m running R version 2.14.1 and data.table 1.7.10 (on Windows 7 and Linux). On both systems I get a strange result in the following toy example:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">test <- data.table(A=c(1,2,3))<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">test[,B:= c("2011-01-01","2011-01-02","2011-01-03")]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">test[,C:= strptime(c("2011-01-01","2011-01-02","2011-01-03"),format="%Y-%m-%d")]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Output:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> A B C<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[1,] 1 2011-01-01 0, 0, 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2,] 2 2011-01-02 0, 0, 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[3,] 3 2011-01-03 0, 0, 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Columns A and B show the expected behavior. Column C was supposed to simply convert the date strings into DateTime types. Clearly this is not happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">Alex<o:p></o:p></p>
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