[R] as.data.frame(cbind()) transforming numeric to factor?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

In "R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-08 r38825)"
one can do this:

as.data.frame(cbind(x.1,x.2),stringsAsFactors = FALSE)


On 8/18/06, Tom Boonen <tom.boonen.maiden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> why does as.data.frame(cbind()) transform numeric variables to
> factors, once one of the other variablesused is a character vector?
>
> #
> x.1 <- rnorm(10)
> x.2 <- c(rep("Test",10))
> Foo <- as.data.frame(cbind(x.1))
> is.factor(Foo$x.1)
>
> Foo <- as.data.frame(cbind(x.1,x.2))
> is.factor(Foo$x.1)
> #
>
> I assume there is a good reason for this, can somebody explain? Thanks.
>
> Best,
> Tom
>
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