[R] Avoiding factors and levels in data frames

[Patrick Connolly]

On Sun, 31-Aug-2008 at 12:01PM +0300, Asher Meir wrote:

|> Hello all.
|> 
|> I am an experienced R user, I have used R for many years for a wide
|> variety of applications. However, I keep on running into one obstacle:
|> I never want factors or levels in my data frames, but I keep on
|> getting them. Is there any way to globally turn this whole feature of
|> data frames off? Using options(stringAsFactors=FALSE) does not seem to
|> work.

Have you tried the as.is option?


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