> Strictly speaking, I don't think this is true. If it were, it would not have > been necessary to make the change so that it does now fallback to using > character/factor. It may, however, have always been the intent. > > I don't really think a warning is necessary, but there are some surprises: > >> str(type.convert(format(1/3, digits=17))) # R-3.0.3 > num 0.333 > >> str(type.convert(format(1/3, digits=17))) # R-3.1.0 > Factor w/ 1 level "0.33333333333333331": 1
It is bizarre that it makes a factor rather than a string. 0.333333333333 is pretty obviously not a categorical value. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
