Message-ID: <20040416161520.717BC1049B@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2004-04-16T18:15:22Z
From: J. R. M. Hosking
Subject: as.Date with factor argument (PR#6779)
Full_Name: J. R. M. Hosking
Version: 1.9.0
OS: WIndows 2000
Submission from: (NULL) (129.34.20.23)
> f<-factor("2000-01-02")
> as.Date(f)
Error in as.Date.default(f) : Don't know how to convert `x' to class "Date"
Presumably as.Date.factor(f) should have the same effect as
as.Date.character(as.character(f)), but that does not seem to be happening.