[R] as.complex

[Erich Neuwirth]

as.complex("2+1i") -> 2+1i
as.complex("2+i") -> NA

Does somebody have a modified version of as.complex
which does the coercion in a less strict manner and
produces a complex number also for strings like the
second example?

Perhaps it would even make sense to change the behavior
of as.complex to handle the second case.
After all, this is an established way of writing
complex numbers in some programming tools
able to deal with complex numbers.



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