[R] Is this foreach behaviour correct?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 06/11/2016 5:02 PM, Jim Lemon wrote:
> hi James,
> I think you have to have a starting date ("origin") for as.Date to
> convert numbers to dates.

That's true with the function in the base package, but the zoo package 
also has an as.Date() function, which defaults the origin to 
"1970-01-01".  If James is using zoo his code would be okay.  If he's 
not, he would have got an error, so I think he must have been.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> 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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