What the <bleep> are you on about? data() does many things, only some of which call read.table() et al., and the ones that do have no special treatment of stringsAsFactors.
-pd > On 18 Feb 2016, at 21:25 , Cook, Malcolm <m...@stowers.org> wrote: > > Hiya, > > Probably been debated elsewhere.... > > I note that R's `data` function does not respect default.stringsAsFactors > > By my lights, it should, especially as it is documented to call read.table, > which DOES respect. > > Oh, but: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/stringsAsFactors-FALSE-tp921891p921893.html > > Compelling. I have to agree. > > So, I change my mind. > > By my lights, `data` should then be documented to NOT respect > default.stringsAsFactors. > > Else? > > ~Malcolm Cook > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
