r
as they are both faster (if not too long) and compressible. However, the
user has to be careful that their strings aren’t getting too long, or
they will be truncated.</p>
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<h4 id="enum">Enum<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#enum"></a>
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<p>The equivalent to factors in R are <strong>ENUM</strong> datatypes.
These are stored internally as integers, but each integer has a string
label attached to it. In contrast to R-factor variables, the integer
values do 