[Rd] Fwd: R unzip method gives filenames as character

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 09/04/2013 09:33, Sean O'Riordain wrote:
> Question: would it be better if the contents list of the unzip() function
> returned the filenames as character rather than factor since they are
> probably unique strings?

That is what the help page says it does, so this is bug -- now corrected 
in R-patched (for one of the methods, only).

>
>> tmp <- unzip(fnam, list=TRUE)
>> str(tmp)
> 'data.frame':   31 obs. of  3 variables:
>   $ Name  : Factor w/ 31 levels "fred1.csv",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
>   $ Length: num  424486 2664277 219798 442383 480857 ...
>   $ Date  : POSIXct, format: "2012-12-01 04:05:00" "2012-12-02 04:06:00"
> "2012-12-03 04:45:00" "2012-12-04 03:52:00" ...
>
> thanks,
> Sean



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