[R-SIG-Finance] issues with zoo masking as.Date function, resulting in issues with as.Date

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Zhang, Ivan
<ivan.zhang at bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip and workaround, this sounds like a bug with zoo package.
>
> -Ivan
>

All as.Date methods from the base are fully exported.  Only timeDate's
are not (note the askerisk):

> library(timeDate)
> methods(as.Date)
[1] as.Date.character as.Date.date      as.Date.dates     as.Date.default
[5] as.Date.factor    as.Date.numeric   as.Date.POSIXct   as.Date.POSIXlt
[9] as.Date.timeDate*

   Non-visible functions are asterisked

To be fair, zoo has non fully exported as.Date methods too but that is
not the cause of this particular problem and zoo's are being changed
in the devel version as well.

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