Message-ID: <20200413110143.idokusxryi3ihrfm@PMW>
Date: 2020-04-13T11:01:43Z
From: Karolis Koncevičius
Subject: stringsAsFactors
In-Reply-To: <24212.6954.256734.135105@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Hello,
I also want to report 2 missed cases of stringsAsFactors=TRUE in base:
1. grid.expand() still uses hard stringsAsFactors=TRUE in its arguments.
2. as.data.frame.table() also keeps factors after conversion from table.
>>>>>> 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
>
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