From roberts at berkeley.edu  Thu Feb  3 16:55:24 2005
From: roberts at berkeley.edu (roberts@berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Feb  3 16:55:27 2005
Subject: [Rd] bug in fix & edit (PR#7642)
Message-ID: <20050203155524.D4138E0B9@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

The edit command (and the fix command, which calls edit), when used on data frames, cause a character variable to become a factor variable. Here is an example:

>> is.factor(work$notes)
>[1] FALSE
>> is.character(work$notes)
>[1] TRUE
>> fix(work)
>> is.character(work$notes)
>[1] FALSE
>> is.factor(work$notes)
>[1] TRUE

in this example, no editing was done -- the data frame work was not changed by the user.


[Rd] bug in fix & edit (PR#7642)
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