[R] c/cbind/rbind of factor variables

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Chong Gu <chong at stat.purdue.edu> writes:

> I guess this is a feature
> 
> > c(as.factor(2),as.factor(3))
> [1] 1 1
> 
> But is there a way to turn off the feature and return the following?
> 
> [1] 2 3
> 
> Thanks for any pointer.

How about 

cc <- function(...) do.call("c", lapply(list(...),as.character))
cc(as.factor(2),as.factor(3))

?

(or as.integer(do.call.....) if you really want integers back)
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