On 04/20/2011 10:13 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
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[mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:56 AM
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Subject: [Rd] Make as.factor an S3 generic?
as.factor / as.ordered is not written as a generic. This differs from
as.numeric, as.matrix, and other as.*. The following seems to address
this and does not break make check-all.
Why did you decide to make as.factor() generic instead of factor()?
Hi Bill --
short-sighted consistency with other as.*; implied simplicity of
coercion rather than construction.
Martin
Bill Dunlap
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