On Sat, 22-Aug-2009 at 10:00PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
|> Hi,
|>
|> It is easy to understand the types vector and frame.
Types of what? Class of object? Doesn't seem likely. What do you
mean by frame? It's a function, and a vector can be a factor,
numeric, logical or character (and probably a few others).
I really don't know what your question is about. Maybe someone else
can guess what it is you want to know.
|>
|> But I am wondering why the type factor is designed in R. What is
|> the advantage of factor compare with other data types in R? Can
|> somebody give an example in which case the type factor is much
|> better than other data types?
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