[R] Is this foreach behaviour correct?

[James Hirschorn]

Yes, I should have put

 > library(foreach)

 > library(zoo)

at the top.

On 11/06/2016 05:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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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