"J" == J R M Hosking <hosking@watson.ibm.com>
on Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:15:20 +0200 (CEST) writes:
J> Full_Name: J. R. M. Hosking
J> Version: 1.9.0
J> OS: WIndows 2000
J> Submission from: (NULL) (129.34.20.23)
>> f<-factor("2000-01-02")
>> as.Date(f)
J> Error in as.Date.default(f) : Don't know how to convert `x' to class "Date"
J> Presumably as.Date.factor(f) should have the same effect as
J> as.Date.character(as.character(f)), but that does not seem to be happening.
No, and the fact that it doesn't is *definitely* not a bug.
It could pass as a (rather extravagant) wish at most.
Martin Maechler