>>>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>>> on Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:57:14 -0400 writes:
> The NEWS for R 4.0.0 says "R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE > default, and hence by default no longer converts strings to factors in > calls to data.frame() and read.table()." > This seems to have been implemented by setting options(stringsAsFactors > = FALSE) in the main R profile. However, setting > options(stringsAsFactors = NULL) > reverts to the same behavior as the old options(stringsAsFactors = > TRUE). Is this intentional? No! Thanks a lot for testing R 4.0.0 alpha/beta, noticing and alerting us about it. This will be changed ASAP. ... and it will benefit the whole R user community if quite a few good R users (as most readers of 'R-devel') would start using 'R 4.0.0 beta' routinely now --- thanks a lot in advance! Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel