On 8 August 2018 at 12:40, Hadley Wickham wrote: | I think this is true in the tidyverse, which will never give you a | factor unless you explicitly ask for one, but the default in base R | (at least as soon as a data frame is involved) is to turn character | vectors into factors.
False. Base R does what the option stringsAsFactors tells it to. Whereas your incorrect statement implies unconditional behaviour. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
