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...ed to interact. I see this argument often, and don't buy it. In any case, for this particular option, the Mayo biostatistics group (~120 users) has had stringsAsFactors=F as a global default for 15+ years now with no ill effects. It is much less confusing for both new and old users. Johh Kane asked "Any idea what the rationale was for setting the option to TRUE?" When factors were first introduced, there was no option to turn them off. Reading between the lines of the white book (Statistical Models in S) that introduced them, this is my guess: they made perfect sense fo...

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