bug in sample (PR#305)- apologies

Robert Gentleman rgentlem@jimmy.harvard.edu
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:03:15 -0500


Oops,
  Somehow I'm not connecting with my mailer properly today...

  What I wanted to point out was the lack of a warning there and the
  following:

> y<-sample(3)
> y
[1] 2 3 1
> v<-as.factor(y)
> is.numeric(v)
[1] TRUE

  Whereas in Splus:

>  y<-sample(3)
>  v<-as.factor(y)
> is.numeric(v)
[1] F

  Did I miss a discussion of this (I would prefer if is.numeric was
false for factors).

 robert

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