[Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
> Kudos to Peter for actually answering the question of why the
> inconsistency was there.  It might be well to add a bit to the
> documentation.
>
>  As to the larger discussion of global defaults let me offer two
> opinions:
>  1. They are the salvation of those of us who do not agree with certain

As soon as you have to interface with other software that may require
a different global default it becomes problematic.