The edit command (and the fix command, which calls edit), when used on data frames, cause a character variable to become a factor variable. Here is an example:
>> is.factor(work$notes) >[1] FALSE >> is.character(work$notes) >[1] TRUE >> fix(work) >> is.character(work$notes) >[1] FALSE >> is.factor(work$notes) >[1] TRUE in this example, no editing was done -- the data frame work was not changed by the user. ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
