From a296180@agate.fmr.com  Wed May 29 12:54:40 2002
From: a296180@agate.fmr.com (a296180@agate.fmr.com)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:54:40 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: typo in Introduction to R on dataframes (PR#1609)
Message-ID: <200205291154.NAA07211@pubhealth.ku.dk>

In section 6.3 in "An Introduction to R", it says:

". . . as is, non-numeric (character and logical) vectors are coerced to be factors
. . . "

In the help for ?data.frame, it says:

Note:

     In versions of R prior to 1.4.0 (and in S3) logical columns were
     converted to factors.

I believe that the help for data.frame is correct and that, therefore, An
Introduction to R should be changed to:

". . . as is, character vectors are coerced to be factors
. . . "

Of course, this could reflect my continuing inability to understand dataframes,
but I hope not! ;-)

Dave Kane

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typo in Introduction to R on dataframes (PR#1609)
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