[Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> > etc?  Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g.,
> > "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code:
> > 
> > else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i])))  
> >         as.Date(data[[i]], sub("^Date-(.*)$","\\1", colClasses[i]))
> > 
> > although perhaps not so easy to document concisely.
> 
> Is it really so hard to convert such columns from character afterwards?

Couldn't that be said for all of the classes?

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