Re: [R] as.numeric(".") returns 0

2008-06-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero. as.numeric(".") [1] 0 This must be a bug. Splus and previous versions of R (<= 2.6.0) return NA, as you might expect. Depends who is doing the expecting. Americans

Re: [R] as.numeric(".") returns 0

2008-06-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Paul Johnson wrote: > In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero. > > >> as.numeric(".") >> > [1] 0 > > This must be a bug. Splus and previous versions of R (<= 2.6.0) return NA, > as you might expect. > > I'm running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Windows XP. > > I su

Re: [R] as.numeric(".") returns 0

2008-06-12 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Paul Johnson: > In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero. > >> as.numeric(".") > [1] 0 Seems to be fixed already. In R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-06-12 r45898): $ as.numeric(".") [1] NA Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion -- Karl Ove Hufthammer __

[R] as.numeric(".") returns 0

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero. > as.numeric(".") [1] 0 This must be a bug. Splus and previous versions of R (<= 2.6.0) return NA, as you might expect. I'm running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Windows XP. Paul ___