In both cases, that is as it should be. 1. expand.grid() (sic) has its main application in factorial designs, for which you want a set of factors
2. tables are factorial structures by nature. Converting factors to character would lose level order (true for 1. as well, actually) - pd > On 13 Apr 2020, at 13:01 , Karolis Koncevičius > <karolis.koncevic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
