>> on the whole, it seems to me that character
>> input gets used as factor data so much of the time when it is
>> used at all that the default stringsAsFactors=TRUE setting
>> seems the more sensible default.
>
> I disagree with this last point. Just think of the number of
> questions to this list about, say, dates.
Mileage on this issue is likely to vary within and between useRs.
For a more than anecdotal answer to the question of whether 'on the whole',
character input gets used as factor data, one would have to construct a more
careful survey than this.
S Ellison
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