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‘poly(x, n)’ now works again (and is now documented) when ‘x’ is a ‘"Date"’ or ‘"POSIXct"’ object, or of another class while fulfilling ‘mode(x) == "numeric"’. This also enables ‘poly(x, *, raw=TRUE)’ for such variables. Reported by Michael Chirico to R-devel.