Dear all,
I have noticed a little change in the behaviour of as.factor from R-2.2.1 to
R-2.3.0, and can't find it in the NEWS.
In R-2.3.0:
> times <- 1:5
> class(times) <- "Date"
> as.factor(times)
[1] 1 2 3 4 5
Levels: 1 2 3 4 5
In R-2.2.1:
> as.factor(times)
[1] 1970-01-02 1970-01-03 1970-01-04 1970-01-05 1970-01-06
Levels: 1970-01-02 1970-01-03 1970-01-04 1970-01-05 1970-01-06
Is this the intended behaviour?
Note that the change is reflected on other functions which seems to use
as.factor internally, for example 'tapply'.
Consider the following code:
times <- 1:5
class(times) <- "Date"
id <- rep(times, each=2)
vals <- rep(1:2,5)
tapply(vals, id, mean)
Under R-2.2.1 this gives:
1970-01-02 1970-01-03 1970-01-04 1970-01-05 1970-01-06
1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
But under R-2.3.0 the output is:
1 2 3 4 5
1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo.
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