R help - Jun 2008 - as.numeric(".") returns 0

In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero.
> as.numeric(".")
[1] 0

This must be a bug. Splus and previous versions of R (<= 2.6.0) return NA,
as you might expect.

I'm running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Windows XP.

Paul

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Paul Johnson:
> In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero.
> 
>> as.numeric(".")
> [1] 0
Seems to be fixed already. In R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-06-12 r45898):

$ as.numeric(".")
[1] NA
Warning message:
NAs introduced by coercion

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

Paul Johnson wrote:
> In R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) as.numeric(".") returns zero.
>
>   
>> as.numeric(".")
>>     
> [1] 0
>
> This must be a bug. Splus and previous versions of R (<= 2.6.0) return
NA,
> as you might expect.
>
> I'm running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Windows XP.
>
>   
I suspect that this got fixed along with the "lone sign" issue. I have

R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-06-12 r45900)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> as.numeric(".")
[1] NA
Warning message:
NAs introduced by coercion



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