[rkward-tracker] [ rkward-Feature Requests-1827267 ] POSIXct/POSIXlt class in data editor

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Feature Requests item #1827267, was opened at 2007-11-06 20:28
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Category: Editor / table
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: P Kapat (kapatp)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: POSIXct/POSIXlt class in data editor

Initial Comment:
Currently, the data editor handles numeric, factor, and cahracter classes. Often, datasets include date-time variables - which when read from csv files are treated as factors or characters (nothing to do here!), but after being converted to any DateTimeClass (as.POSIXct/as.POSIXlt) it is displayed as numbers (since epoch - that is how it is internally stored I guess). Note that on "View"-ing the data, which amounts to print(data), the date variable is properly handled by print. Is there anyway to do it in the editor-display itself, instead of converting back to character?

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