From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Mon Jan 25 16:49:35 2010
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:49:35 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
> Kudos to Peter for actually answering the question of why the
> inconsistency was there. ?It might be well to add a bit to the
> documentation.
>
> ?As to the larger discussion of global defaults let me offer two
> opinions:
> ?1. They are the salvation of those of us who do not agree with certain

As soon as you have to interface with other software that may require
a different global default it becomes problematic.



[Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors
Gabor Grothendieck