[R] Is this foreach behaviour correct?

[Jim Lemon]

hi James,
I think you have to have a starting date ("origin") for as.Date to
convert numbers to dates.

Jim

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 12:10 PM, James Hirschorn
<james.hirschorn at hotmail.com> wrote:
> This seemed odd so I wanted to check:
>
>  > x <- foreach(i=10000:10100, .combine='c') %do% { as.Date(i) }
>
> yields a numeric vector for x:
>
>  > class(x)
> [1] "numeric"
>
> Should it not be a vector of Date?
>
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