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

[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

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Paul Johnson
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