I have a character vector j1 created from dimnames and want it to convert it
to numeric.
Like the first element:

> j1[1]
  f896
1  896

> as.numeric(j1[1])
[1] 1990

why is it not 896 as it should be?
This is true fr the whole vector.

Thanks
W.P.

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