[Rd] inconsistent behaviour of c(...)

[Peter Langfelder]

I think your character vector got converted to a factor. See ?options,
section stringsAsFactors:

     ‘stringsAsFactors’: The default setting for arguments of
          ‘data.frame’ and ‘read.table’.
The default is TRUE, so strings get converted to factors when building
data frames.

Set options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE) and try again.

Peter

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:15 AM Michael Meyer via R-devel
<r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> Running R 3.5.0 under Windows 7
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> typeof(c(1,"2")) yields "character" as expected. But in
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> d.f <- data.frame(C=c(1,"2"))
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> typeof(d.f$C) yields "integer".
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> Is this a bug?
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> Michael Meyer
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