What are you seeing here?  I get identical results in the two cases.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> # 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

That's not so easy to achieve, given rounding error, but I am seeing
0 variance in both cases.

> 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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