From murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com  Sun Apr 12 14:57:14 2020
From: murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:57:14 -0400
Subject: [Rd] stringsAsFactors
Message-ID: <e9c057e7-9c64-38ff-c936-fea6c1437b1c@gmail.com>

The NEWS for R 4.0.0 says "R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE 
default, and hence by default no longer converts strings to factors in 
calls to data.frame() and read.table()."

This seems to have been implemented by setting options(stringsAsFactors 
= FALSE) in the main R profile.  However, setting

options(stringsAsFactors = NULL)

reverts to the same behavior as the old options(stringsAsFactors = 
TRUE).  Is this intentional?

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] stringsAsFactors
Duncan Murdoch