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--27464147-942662499-1179141762=:28940 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; FORMAT=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How about the following NEWS item (a bug fix) o Assigning class "factor" to an object now requires it has integer (and not say double) codes. ? (Changing the mode to double amounted to creating a new double vector and then assigning the attributes of the old object including the class. We gave a more specific error message in this case in an attempt to be helpful ....) >From ?factor 'factor' returns an object of class '"factor"' which has a set of integer codes the length of 'x' with a '"levels"' attribute of mode 'character'. If 'ordered' is true (or 'ordered' is used) the result has class 'c("ordered", "factor")'. So a factor necessarily has integer codes. That you were able to change the mode in earlier versions of R was a bug that has been fixed. You may well want one of the answers to FAQ 7.10. Please take note of the 'BUGS' section in the FAQ and the posting guide: three incorrect bug items in one day is unhelpful. On Fri, 11 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Frédéric Gosselin > Version: 2.5 vs 2.4 and 2.2.1 > OS: windows XP > Submission from: (NULL) (195.221.118.52) > > > ############# > L3 <- LETTERS[1:3] > (d <- data.frame(cbind(x=1, y=1:10), fac=as.factor(sample(L3, 10, > repl=TRUE)))) > mode(d[,3])<-"numeric" > ############### > > when trying to change the mode of a column in a data.frame that is a factor to > numeric(cf. preceding code), the following error occurs (in French) in R 2.5: > > Erreur dans `storage.mode<-`(`*tmp*`, value = "double") : > le mode de stockage d'un objet "factor" ne peut être modifié > > The same thing works fine in R2.4 and 2.2.1. > > It does not seem to correspond to new things announced in the NEWS file for > the > 2.5 version... > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 --27464147-942662499-1179141762=:28940-- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel