For the record: this is now fixed.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

R-developers,
The results below are inconsistent. From the documentation for
is.numeric, I expect FALSE in both cases.

x <- data.frame(dt=3DSys.Date())
is.numeric(x$dt)
[1] FALSE
sapply(x, is.numeric)
 dt
TRUE

## Yet, sapply seems aware of the Date class
sapply(x, class)
 dt
"Date"

Thanks,

Robert McGehee, CFA
Geode Capital Management, LLC
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