[Rd] stringsAsFactors

[Karolis Koncevičius]

Hello,

I also want to report 2 missed cases of stringsAsFactors=TRUE in base:

1. grid.expand() still uses hard stringsAsFactors=TRUE in its arguments.
2. as.data.frame.table() also keeps factors after conversion from table.

>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>>     on Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:57:14 -0400 writes:
>
>    > The NEWS for R 4.0.0 says "R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE
>    > default, and hence by default no longer converts strings to factors in
>    > calls to data.frame() and read.table()."
>
>    > This seems to have been implemented by setting options(stringsAsFactors
>    > = FALSE) in the main R profile.  However, setting
>
>    > options(stringsAsFactors = NULL)
>
>    > reverts to the same behavior as the old options(stringsAsFactors =
>    > TRUE).  Is this intentional?
>
>
>No!  Thanks a lot for testing R 4.0.0 alpha/beta, noticing and
>alerting us about it.
>
>This will be changed ASAP.
>
>... and it will benefit the whole R user community if quite a
>few good R users (as most readers of 'R-devel') would start
>using 'R 4.0.0 beta' routinely now --- thanks a lot in advance!
>
>Martin
>
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