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1997 Jul 22
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R-alpha: some thoughts about factor()
...ion about factor().
I thought you might be interested in some of my thoughts about factors.
Any comments welcome
Best regards
Jens Oehlschlaegel-Akiyoshi
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I think the problem is deeper than that factors would just be handled
inapprobriately by some S+ functions, the inconsistency is built in
the constructor factor(), and thus is built in the concept!
Let me cite S+ online help of factor() on the meaning of levels:
VALUE
object of class "factor", representing values taken from the finite set
given by levels. It is imp...