[R] R design (was "Variable passed to function not used in function in select)

[Peter Dalgaard]

Ben Bolker wrote:

> 
>   Sometime soon when I have the time and energy I will start
> campaigning for an additional "drop" argument to subset that
> does what one expects (!!??) with subsetted factor variables ...

Not that one again! For at least one other value of one, the expectation 
is the opposite: Factor levels do not go away just because they happen 
not to be present in data.

fct <- lapply(dd, is.factor)
dd[fct] <- lapply(dd[fct], "[", drop=TRUE)

and begone with it...

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