[R-SIG-Mac] [External] summary() suddently producing weird NULL: values for factors and character attributes

[Richard M. Heiberger]

please send to the list the output from both:

dput(head(P2))

utils::sessionInfo()

This is the Macintosh list.  Is this specifically a Macintosh problem?



On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:32 PM John Helly via R-SIG-Mac <
r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:

> Aloha.
>
> For the past few weeks, maybe 6 or more, I've been getting strange results
> from the summary() function for data.frames.  Has anyone else noticed
> something like this?  I don't think I've done anything to cause this but
> cannot find anything to attribute it to.  Example below.  It lists every
> row as a value in the data frame attribute DAUCO.  Similar behavior found
> with other read.table results using syntax below.
>
>
> PRISM        =
> read.table(PRISM_INPUT,header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=TRUE,sep=',',
>
> colClasses=c('character','numeric','numeric','numeric','numeric','numeric'))
>
> P2 is a subset of PRISM.
>
>
>
> J.
>
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