From rpeng at stat.ucla.edu  Sun May 11 20:57:41 2003
From: rpeng at stat.ucla.edu (Roger Peng)
Date: Mon May 12 04:57:52 2003
Subject: [Rd] codes() has been deprecated
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I noticed on the developer's page under the notes for upgrading packages
for 1.8.0, it says:

coef() and coef<-() have been deprecated. 

This should be codes() and codes<-(), no?

-roger
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On Fri, 9 May 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> We have deprecated codes() in R-devel.  One we started looking into this, 
> we found that *all* the uses of codes() in the R sources and probably all 
> the uses in CRAN packages were not what we think was intended.
> 
> For an ordered factor, codes() is the same as 
> unclass/as.vector/as.integer and so was unneeded.
> 
> For an unordered factor, codes() does *not* retrieve the internal codes.  
> It effectively re-orders the levels into alphabetical order (in the
> current locale), forms a factor with those levels and then returns the
> internal codes.  This is rarely what is wanted, as if the levels are not
> in alphabetical order this is normally reflects some other natural order
> and the function should normallyrecognize that.  I normally use unclass()  
> to get the internal codes, but as.vector and as.integer work equally well.
> 
> R has a codes() replacement function that is also deprecated, and of which 
> we can find no uses.
> 
> Brian Ripley
> 
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[Rd] codes() has been deprecated
Roger Peng