re coercing data frame rows to character: Am I right that this is a bug?

Dear Folks--
All this seems to me to behave the way you expect, recognising that column b
is a factor:

AA <- data.frame(a=3:4, b=c('x', 'y'))
AA[1,]

a b
1 3 x

as.numeric(AA[1,])

[1] 3 1

AA[,2]

[1] x y
Levels: x y

as.numeric(AA[,2])

[1] 1 2

as.character(AA[,2])

[1] "x" "y"

But this seems to me to be wrong:

as.character(AA[1,])

[1] "3" "1"

Shouldn't it be:
[1] "3" "x"
to be consistant with the normal pattern of coercing factors to character
values?
If it is a bug, is this the right place to post it?

sincerely, andrewH

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