Periods with Inf values causes an error

[avsdev-cw]

Whilst uncommon, it believe it should be possible to have a period with an infinite value (which when applied to a date with an operation, should result in an infinite date). Currently there is some code in periods.r which prevents this from being a possibility:

https://github.com/tidyverse/lubridate/blob/cae67eaee701f5041425968fc2a838e9fa25ed19/R/periods.r#L29C1-L32C4

  if (sum(values - trunc(values))) {
    msg <- "periods must have integer values"
    errors <- c(errors, msg)
  }

Reprex:

lubridate::today() + Inf
#> [1] "Inf"
lubridate::today() + lubridate::days(Inf)
#> Error in if (sum(values - trunc(values))) {: argument is not interpretable as logical

I should note, the reason I am doing this is in a dplyr::mutate I need to add a number of days to a date to determine a deadline: Inf is used to specify that there is no deadline, whereas NA is used to specify that no deadline has been specified yet

[vspinu]

Thanks for reporting! I have fixed the error but the actual computation has to be fixed in https://github.com/vspinu/timechange/issues/29 For now you will get the NA instead of the Inf date.