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...and sometimes you just apparently get the nmax argument ignored: > identical(factor(letters,nmax = 25), factor(letters,nmax=26)) [1] TRUE and that, to paraphrase what Roger Hammerstein said about Kansas City, is about "as fer as I can go." (http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/e/everythingsuptodateinkansascity.shtml) Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Ramnik Bansal <ramnik.bansal at gm...

I have been trying to understand how the argument 'nmax' works in 'factor' function. R-Documentation states - "Since factors typically have quite a small number of levels, for large vectors x it is helpful to supply nmax as an upper bound on the number of unique values." In the code below what is the reason for error when value of nmax is 24. Why did the same error not

...e nmax > argument ignored: > >> identical(factor(letters,nmax = 25), factor(letters,nmax=26)) > [1] TRUE > > and that, to paraphrase what Roger Hammerstein said about Kansas City, > is about "as fer as I can go." > > (http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/e/everythingsuptodateinkansascity.shtml) > > Cheers, > Bert > > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along > and sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Sat...