Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm...
>
>> as.character(v)
> [1] NA "NA" "NA"
>
> This does look like a leftover from times when there was no character
> NA in the language. It is the kind of thing you need to be very
> careful about fixing though. (I have a couple of scars from
> a
Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> In some circumstances, as.character applied to a list converts real
> NA's into the string "NA". Propagation of NAs is something R does
> very well and unless there are good reasons for losing the NA, it
> would improve the consistency w.r.t.