From wdunlap at tibco.com  Wed Apr 20 19:13:38 2011
From: wdunlap at tibco.com (William Dunlap)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:13:38 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Make as.factor an S3 generic?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Morgan
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:56 AM
> To: R-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] Make as.factor an S3 generic?
> 
> as.factor / as.ordered is not written as a generic. This differs from 
> as.numeric, as.matrix, and other as.*. The following seems to address 
> this and does not break make check-all.

Why did you decide to make as.factor() generic instead of factor()?

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com



[Rd] Make as.factor an S3 generic?
William Dunlap