R-alpha: as.numeric

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:

> as.numeric() turns a logical matrix into a numeric vector. Shouldn't it 
> stay a matrix?

It *sounds* wrong, but:

S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 
Working data will be in .Data 
> cbind(c(T,T),c(F,F))
     [,1] [,2] 
[1,]    T    F
[2,]    T    F
> as.numeric(.Last.value)
[1] 1 1 0 0

In fact, it does the same with numeric matrices.

To convert logical matrix to character matrix in Splus, you could
either add zero or use mode(x)<-"numeric", same thing in R.

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