R help - Oct 2004 - invalid for factors not really working

Dear all,

I have the impression that the function invalid from gtools is not
really working as I would expect it to do for factors:

Browse[1]> invalid(as.factor(NA))
[1] FALSE
Browse[1]> invalid(as.numeric(NA))
[1] TRUE

I would exptect that
> invalid(as.factor(NA))
is also TRUE.

Maybe this should be changed in a consistent way which also works in
similar cases for other classes.
One could possibly use
> else return(all(is.na(as.vector(x))))
Any better suggestions?

Best regards,

Stefan

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