From bbolker at gmail.com  Tue Feb 12 14:54:37 2013
From: bbolker at gmail.com (Ben Bolker)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:54:37 +0000
Subject: [Rd] Regression stars
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Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes:

  [snip]
> 
> Regarding stringsAsFactors:  I'm not going to defend keeping it as is, 
> I'll let the people who like it defend it.  

  Would someone (anyone) like to come forward and give us a defense
of stringsAsFactors=TRUE -- even someone who doesn't personally like
it but would like to play devil's advocate?

> What I will likely do is 
> make a few changes so that character vectors are automatically changed 
> to factors in modelling functions, so that operating with 
> stringsAsFactors=FALSE doesn't trigger silly warnings.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 

 [apologies for snipping context: "gmane made me do it"]



[Rd] Regression stars
Ben Bolker