From hosking at watson.ibm.com  Fri Apr 16 18:15:20 2004
From: hosking at watson.ibm.com (hosking@watson.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Apr 16 18:15:22 2004
Subject: [Rd] as.Date with factor argument (PR#6779)
Message-ID: <20040416161520.717BC1049B@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

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.


[Rd] as.Date with factor argument (PR#6779)
hosking@watson.ibm.com