[datatable-help] Error: no method or default for coercing "character" to "IDate"

[Chris Neff]

Hi all,

Using read.csv's colClasses argument with a date column tagged as IDate
doesn't work. Distilling it down it is the following.

This works:

as.IDate("2010/11/01")

but this doesn't (and is what read.csv uses):

as("2010/11/01","IDate")


I'm not familiar enough with the class semantics any more to remember, but
any reason why this isn't doable?

Thanks,
Chris
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