# users would benefit from a warning about the behavior in the
# groups.unbalanced case below.  A propogation of difference is the variance
# calculation is leading to an apparently significant difference in
# means, even though the numeric values are all identical.  Obviously upon
# inspection the difference in means is meaningless, but users might be warned
# if all of the input data is identical

xx <- rep(2.10,80)

groups.balanced <- as.factor(c(rep("one",40),rep("two",40)))
groups.unbalanced <- as.factor(c(rep("one",44),rep("two",36)))

t.test(xx ~ groups.balanced)

t.test(xx ~ groups.unbalanced)



<<insert bug report here>>



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