On 08/18/2012 03:32 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Folks:
...
So contrary opinions
cheerily welcomed. But perhaps these comments might be helpful to
those who have been "bitten" by factors or just wonder what all the
fuss is about.
I tend to use stringsAsFactors=FALSE quite a bit, as I am often
manipulating character strings, and that
Error in strsplit(bugga, "") : non-character argument
is so annoying. Almost as annoying as printing out a list of selected
cases with some of the fields turning up as integers rather than the
strings I expected. That said, I often convert the results to factors so
that some other function will work properly. So I must express my
gratitude for motivating me to add
options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
to that wonderful .First function that makes my life a little happier
every day.
Jim
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