From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Tue Jun  2 15:41:42 1998
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:41:42 -0400
Subject: "as.numeric" / "As.numeric" [was "R-beta: bugs and problems"]
References: <199806021002.MAA00877@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <98Jun2.105400edt.13497@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>

>User functions written for both R and S should get the same
>thing for as.numeric(.).

I would like the same result here. As for the "As." functions, I would not be
inclined to encourage people too much to program things at this level in a way
that would not also work in S. The result may be that they decide they must make
a choice between the languages, and I don't think that would be a good thing.
One way around that is to include the "As." functions in a set of compatability
functions which can be used as programming tools in both S and R. (I have a
small set of these, but there are lots of things that could be added.)

Paul Gilbert

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"as.numeric" / "As.numeric" [was "R-beta: bugs and problems"]
Paul Gilbert