[Rd] Possible bug in factor (PR#531)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:

> In this particular case you know that x has class c("ordered","factor")
> and that you want it to have class "factor", so it is harmless. It still
> may be unnecessary -- eg if you just want it to have treatment contrasts
> rather than polynomial contrasts you can use C() or constrasts()<-.

We do have a problem in the documentation:

The default for factor is ordered=FALSE according to the help page but

> factor(ordered(4:1),ordered=F)
[1] 4 3 2 1
Levels:  1 2 3 4 
> factor(ordered(4:1))
[1] 4 3 2 1
Levels:  1 < 2 < 3 < 4 

and the actual function definition says

function (x, levels = sort(unique(x), na.last = TRUE),
                    labels=levels, exclude = NA, ordered =
                    is.ordered(x))



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