> That's why (I think) it should be an *** optional argument > with default set to FALSE *** ... it's clear from the past traffic > on the list (I won't take the time to dig up the thread > references right now) that there is at the very least > a significant minority of users who expect the opposite, > or at least would like a reasonably transparent way > (not involving chicken entrails or mysterious incantations :-) ) > to make this behavior happen when they do want it.
Is there a reason you don't just do options(stringAsFactors = F) ? i.e. why not use character vectors which behave in almost all respects identically to factors, except that they don't preserve levels. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
