Hi Mathew, In what way are they at odds?
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Matthew Lundberg <matthew.k.lundb...@gmail.com> wrote: > These two seem to be at odds. Is this the case? > > >From help(factor) - section Warning: > > To transform a factor f to approximately its original numeric values, > as.numeric(levels(f))[f] is recommended and slightly more efficient than > as.numeric(as.character(f)). > > >From the language definition - section 2.3.1: > > Factors are currently implemented using an integer array to specify the > actual levels and > a second array of names that are mapped to the integers. Rather > unfortunately users often > make use of the implementation in order to make some calculations easier. > This, however, > is an implementation issue and is not guaranteed to hold in all > implementations of R. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
